Android source code, Java, and copyright infringement: what’s going on?

So it's been a fun day of armchair code forensics and legal analysis on the web after Florian Mueller published a piece this morning alleging Google directly copied somewhere between 37 and 44 Java source files in Android. That's of course a major accusation, seeing as Oracle is currently suing Google for patent and copyright infringement related to Java, and it prompted some extremely harsh technical rebuttals, like this one from ZDNet and this one from Ars Technica . The objections in short: the files in question are test files, aren't important, probably don't ship with Android, and everyone is making a hullabaloo over

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