These corporate v. corporate cases aren't as clear cut. It's not like:
Aha!!!! You breached copyright! Off with his head!
I agree - better, if I accidentally redistributed a useless file
violating a license, I think Oracle and Google can kill me. If I had
expensive lawyers, as they do, things can probably be amended.
In any case, it seems that people really like to see in news only what
they like (I'm referring to the rebuttal by ZDNet and ArsTechnica). If I
read:
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*Updated*: Looks like Google has already taken care of these files.
PolicyNodeImpl.java was deleted from the source tree on 30 Oct 2010
<http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/libcore.git;a=commitdiff;h=95d52b3b1446af2fefd46f57efc1afb6c679e8cc>.
The other 6 java files and a few others were deleted on 14 Jan 2011
<http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/libcore.git;a=commitdiff;h=a13e4f2c06c4673a1d6fe52409432ccc576c2fe3>.
The commit comment from developer Dan Bornstein reads “Remove pointless
tests”. You can still go back through the history to see the old versions.
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I understand that there were more violating files than we knew, and that
they were distributed until ten days ago. Now, this is in any case
license violation. Is not as serious as they were part of the runtime,
but the violation remains. Since it will probably end up in paying money
or royalties, the difference could be in the amount of money; but not in
winning / losing the lawsuit.
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