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For what it's worth, this still at least looks like it's mostly code from test frameworks, which doesn't necessarily even run on an Android device itself. So i
by rst 16y ago
For what it's worth, this still at least looks like it's mostly code from test frameworks, which doesn't necessarily even run on an Android device itself. So it could likely be dropped from the source distributions without compromising the functionality of any device. (Distributing it would still have been infringement --- but a lot more easily remedied than it might have been otherwise.)
Specifically, if we look at the PDFs from the original source here:
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-evidence-supports-oracles-case.html
six of the seven Android files are in subpackages of "org.apache.harmony.security.tests". The Android version of Mueller's example number six, strangely, has no package declaration at all, but the name of the class (PolicyNodeImpl) at least is the same as one that has been identified as unit test code the last time it came up in this connection.
(BTW, the "org.apache.harmony" package prefix doesn't necessarily mean that the ASF ever distributed the particular file in question; that PolicyNodeImpl.java file was distributed by Google with an Apache Harmony package declaration, but had never been distributed by the ASF itself.)
- spiffworks 16y agoAbout the files with the Oracle copyright header, it seems to be on some remote tree that I can't even browse. Can you opine on whether it was ever actually shipped?
- ergo98 16y agoThis is the most important post in this thread. It looks like they created their own "conformance tests", in some cases using the Java implementation as the baseline. On the scale of concerns, that is somewhere around 0.
- shinkansen 16y ago> For what it's worth, this still at least looks like it's mostly code from test frameworks... Actually it doesn't look that way according to what appears to be Florian Mueller: http://www.zdnet.com/tb/1-92456-1762392?tag=talkback-river;1_92456_1762392 http://www.zdnet.com/tb/1-92456-1762392?tag=talkback-river;1... Quoted from the link above: "However, the functionality contained in those particular classes is related to security, not to unit testing. Also, the Wireless Toolkit (the 37 other files I listed) isn't unit testing either."