Thanks for finding that article, Fabrizio. Here's a twist: I can't recall OpenJDK code ever using hungarian notation, whereas android code definitely does. I have no idea where PolicyNodeImpl.java is in the OpenJDK sources, I couldn't find it (god, the hg web interface sucks). So, where's that from? Did Oracle rename the variable names in addition to aligning the spacing? It's somewhat hard to fathom that Apache would make such a mistake.
But, if true (and while the difference does increase if you read further in, its undeniable that these are eerily similar to each other), this would indicate an extremely interesting legal test of open source principles. What if the code in question was committed by Apache Harmony and Google merely copied it - is it Google that's responsible for such a thing? What does the BSD license even say about such things? A thousand more questions spring to mind. Here's a (shockingly biased) writeup by groklaw which is separate from this copyright claim but involves Oracle trying to make the judge throw out Google's documentation of Oracle's 180 on the FOU clause: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101027113123225 - which might also be relevant here. Pertinent information in case you never heard / forgot: Oracle is not using its in-house lawyers to fight this case; it is using the services of Boies Schiller. The guys who completely FUBARed the Sco v. Novell case. On Oct 28, 4:01 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > On 10/28/2010 03:50 PM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > > > So, they are not talking (only) of implementing the specs, but of code > > being _directly_ copied. I'd be deeply surprised by that, because it > > would have been a blatant error by Apache, which I think is very > > competent and careful about this sort of issues. OTOH, it's hard for > > me to imagine that Oracle uses a blatantly useless weapon, furthermore > > as part of an escalation (I mean, it's not that patent claims have > > been dismissed yet and they have to desperately resort to another thing). > > Here it's a sample of the alleged evidences by Oracle: > > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/oracle-says-google-directly-copied-java...http://www.scribd.com/doc/40316099/orclgoogcode > > -- > f.g. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
