Arrays, from where he took rangeCheck has a copyright notice stating that it was copyrighted by Sun, then Oracle: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/anno

Arrays, from where he took rangeCheck has a copyright notice stating that it was copyrighted by Sun, then Oracle: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/annotate/37a05a11f281/src/share/classes/java/util/Arrays.java http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/annotate/37a05a11f2... It also states that Josh Bloch is one of the authors. You maybe right that he may have done this as not a work for hire, or even that he may still own copyrights for this code (I don't know what the contributors agreement said at that time), but Google didn't even contest it in court.