Use of COTS Products. Several of the blog entries and articles on using lines of code as a measurement tool point out one of the challenges of this approach being how to count libraries.

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Ankit works in J2SE (core java). During code reviews, he's frequently asked to reduce his lines of code (LOC). "It's not about removing redundant code," he writes.

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The exact same nine lines are also present in an Android file named Timsort.java, which Bloch testified he wrote in 2007. When asked if he had copied the copyrighted Sun code directly for Timsort ...

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Google wanted Android to understand commands commonly used in the Java SE platform (which is now owned by Oracle), so it used within Android about 11,000 lines of code from Java SE. Oracle claimed ...

The argument centered on a function called rangeCheck. Of all the lines of code that Oracle had tested — 15 million in total — these were the only ones that were “literally” copied.