[The Duke]

PREDICTION: This is going to be HUGE news in 2011.

[Paladin2]

Maybe they can sell the code to SCOx (but not the copyrights)?

[Whenifhow]

FYI

[Alex Murphy]

Ping for later

[battousai]

Ouch, does this affect honeycomb too? Hope not looking forward to the Motorola Xoom tablet and this may throw a monkey wrench into all that.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Could this be the reason for the huge management shake-up at Google today?

[Revolting cat!]

Then what the fog is “Open Source”, Larry?

[Mariner]

This is a very big deal.

Code theft is ubiquitous, but sometimes tough to catch. Tagging these modules was a brilliant act by the original Sun Java engineers.

[TChad]

Whoops. This could be a big, stinking mess for Google.

Here's a sample of the code in question alongside decompiled Java code. This shows the inserted Apache license text:

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/69702407/1-AclEntryImpl-synopsis

Not good.

[ThunderSleeps]

Someone better do a “clean room” implementation of those functions/classes ASAP. That way they can at least limit their liability going forward but...doesn’t look good.

[MrEdd]

Bookmark

[MrEdd]

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[dangerdoc]

There is a followup story on Engadget making it sound like the original story is a nonstory. Me, I don’t know.

[RideForever]

No wonder it works so well, compared to MicroSoft.

Open source has a lot of American talent behind it.

[B Knotts]

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/oops-no-copied-java-code-or-weapons-of-mass-destruction-found-in-android/2162