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==Copyright controversy==

{{Main|Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc.}}

In 2010, Oracle Corporation sued Google for having distributed a new implementation of Java embedded in the Android operating system.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/232901227 |title=Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It |date=2012-05-01 |publisher=DrDobbs |access-date=2012-05-09}}</ref> Google had not acquired any permission to reproduce the Java API, although permission had been given to the similar OpenJDK project. Judge William Alsup ruled in the ''Oracle v. Google'' case that APIs cannot be [[copyrighted]] in the U.S, and that a victory for Oracle would have widely expanded copyright protection and allowed the copyrighting of simple software commands: