The author explains in the bitcoin forum that the library is his 20% project.
from http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=4236.0
"Google staff have the ability to spend ~20% of their time on projects that interest them ... standard process for open sourcing our code ... checked by our lawyers for things like trademark/export compliance... This is why the code has our copyright at the top.
This is not "official" in that it does not reflect some vast corporate master plan, we are not about to start accepting BitCoins for AdWords, we have not just dropped 200GHash/sec into the network and we are not going to fork the block chain (to mention just a few of the theories I've seen floating around)."
from http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=4236.0 "Google staff have the ability to spend ~20% of their time on projects that interest them ... standard process for open sourcing our code ... checked by our lawyers for things like trademark/export compliance... This is why the code has our copyright at the top.
This is not "official" in that it does not reflect some vast corporate master plan, we are not about to start accepting BitCoins for AdWords, we have not just dropped 200GHash/sec into the network and we are not going to fork the block chain (to mention just a few of the theories I've seen floating around)."