Google released on Dec. 24 new versions of its Android platform that are licensed for use under a free, open source license provided by Oracle as part of its OpenJDK project, according to its filing in a federal court in California.

OpenJDK is an open source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition. The court is looking into whether Google’s use of Oracle’s Java code in the Android mobile operating system can be seen as ‘fair use,’ which is a legal doctrine that permits copying under limited circumstances.

The code for the new versions has been made available on the Android Open Source Project repository but is still work-in-progress and will be part of future complete versions of Android, according to Google.

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