New alleged evidence of Android infringement isn’t a smoking gun

“Patent reform activist Florian Mueller has published what he
believes to be new evidence of copyright infringement in Google’s
Android software platform. He has found files in the Android code
repository that have Sun copyright headers identifying them as
proprietary and confidential.

“A close look at the actual files and accompanying
documentation, however, suggest that it’s not a simple case of copy
and paste. The infringing files are found in a compressed archive
in a third-party component supplied by SONiVOX, a member of
Google’s Open Handset Alliance (OHA). SONiVOX, which was previously
called Sonic, develops an Embedded Audio Synthesis (EAS) framework
and accompanying Java API wrappers which it markets as
audioINSIDE.

“When EAS was first published into to the Android Open Source
Project (AOSP) code repository in 2008, one of the files that was
included in the initial code commit was MMAPI.zip, which is stored
in a subdirectory called misc. The zip archive appears to contain
SONiVOX’s implementation of a Java ME Mobile Media API (MMAPI)
wrapper for EAS and a set of tools for porting and testing the
implementation.”

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