Here is the original source, I suppose:

http://www.docjar.com/html/api/sun/security/provider/certpath/PolicyNodeImpl.java.html

It's not Hungarian notation, just using 'm' to prefix fields.

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]>
> 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.
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