Oracle, the email said, will never cooperate with any “Java Foundation” and will not release its IP. Java, though, has been open source for nearly nine years, with interested parties able to ...

As Android prospered, Oracle's Java licensing business, centered largely around feature-phones, cratered. "They copied 11,500 lines of code," Oracle attorney Peter Bicks said during closing arguments.

Oracle first brought the suit against Google over the use of the Java APIs in 2010. A district court ruled in 2012 that APIs cannot be copyrighted. But in 2013, an appeals court reversed that ruling.