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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 02:54 AM EDT |
I think that I've seen that Google already explained to the Judge that due to
the way version control works, the old files were still in the version control
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| Authored by: bugstomper on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 03:04 AM EDT |
I downloaded Android source recently after Oracle made their statement in court
that the copied lines were still on Google's servers. I don't know if Oracle
downloaded it the same way but it was the only way I found to do it.
First of all, I found no web browsing interface to the source repository. I
think there used to be one but not now.
I also found no way to do a git clone of the full repository. There is a way to
set up a mirror of the repository, but that is much more than the 1GB Oracle
talked about and I didn't try.
The way Google says to get a git repository of Android is to download a python
wrapper script that they provide, and then run the script in which you specify
which version of Android you want to get. The script downloads the subset of the
git repository that is for that specific version of Android.
That way I was able to download the approximately 1GB git repository of sources
for Android version 2.0.2 (if I remember the version number correctly) which has
the test files like PolicyNodeImpl.java that Google has removed from the current
distribution.
Among other defenses, Google has said that the code has been removed from the
currently distributed versions of Android, and that requesting an old version of
Android source code from the archived repository causes the archiving software
to create the requested files on demand.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 03:23 AM EDT |
is only a problem for the adversarial court in SF
An inquisitorial judge would download it himself...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 04:26 AM EDT |
Yeah, they're probably still redistributing said files in a legal sense, but
it's fairly immaterial given the triviality of said files.
I'm curious how they got in there, but damages will be nonexistent if that's all
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