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Eric Schmidt said Sun didn't think Google was doing anything wrong for using their APIs in Android

Google and Oracle are in court today and Google's own Eric Schmidt was asked to take the stand.

He told the court that Google used the parts of Java that they felt didn't need to be licensed since it was open source. He went on to explained that at no point did anyone from Sun think Google was stealing from them or that they were required to license the APIs that were being used in Android.
 
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