Seems like Android uses some code from projects that Nokia has contributed to, and those libraries are low level OS stuff also used in Meego etc. The title gives the impression Nokia contributed directly to Android.
The study very strangely excluded the Linux kernel, but included other 3rd party open source components --- including dbus and the bluetooth stack, to which Nokia has made contributions.
If they had included the kernel, Nokia would have vanished into the noise. If they had not included any 3rd party external components, then Nokia wouldn't have shown up either. In other words, the statistics are they way they are only because of a very strange choice of what to count and what not to count. Did someone chose them just so they could make a sensationalistic headline and grab web hits? You decide...
> Nokia is one of the most active Android contributors,
when Nokia contributions are about 1% the size of the most active contributor (Google) (and they are far less than 1% of the total contributions) is a misdirection.
(And, as the article states, they aren't Nokia contributions to Android, but to open source in general, that ends up being used, among other places, in Android.)
Nokia was actively considering android for about 14 months so its not surprising that there would be code commits from Nokia.
Although, internal politics had its impact certainly the obstacle of getting Nokia mobile services such as Maps, etc on android was the final no vote of going with android.
That's not the reason why there is code written by Nokia employees in the Android source tree (as the article points out, by the way). The reason is that Nokia has become a significant contributor to the Linux kernel (e.g. UBIFS, drivers for TI SoCs, ...) and some Linux userspace projects (e.g. bluez and D-Bus) following the acquisition of Trolltech (Qt has a significant presence on Linux, obviously) and their Maemo and MeeGo Linux-based mobile operating system efforts. And a lot of that stuff is sitting in the Android source tree, and some of it is also in actual use in Android production system images.
OTOH I'm not aware of any Nokia contributions to the Android-exclusive parts of the Android source tree.
Seems like Android uses some code from projects that Nokia has contributed to, and those libraries are low level OS stuff also used in Meego etc. The title gives the impression Nokia contributed directly to Android.