According to Engadget, the undecided Oracle-Google lawsuit, in which Oracle has been pushing for royalties from every Android phone shipped, could probably have been settled on Friday with a study.

With the dispute essentially pertaining to the legitimacy of claims that Google directly copied Oracle code in Android, Engadget's Nilay Patel has drawn attention to the recent assertions that the files in question were merely for testing and in some cases had already been deleted. Patel opines that the technical issues were immaterial and that the very existence of the files could make Google liable.

Patel further argued that even if the files have been removed by Google from the existing code tree, or have supposedly been inserted automatically or absent from current handsets, the attempts to change the licenses may mark a violation of Oracle's copyrights.

Patel elaborated: "Somewhere along the line, Google took Oracle's code, replaced the GPL [licensing] language with the incompatible Apache Open Source License, and distributed the code under that license publicly. That's all it takes -- if Google violated the GPL by changing the license, it also infringed Oracle's underlying copyright."

While Google has been accusing Oracle of misrepresenting code to artificially fortify its case, Engadget is of the opinion that the Friday disclosure of raw details may leave Google with hardly anything in defense.