dexter11 Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Sun and its CEO Jonathan Schwartz kept his word and open sourced Java Standard Edition, Java Micro Edition and Java Enterprise Edition under the GPL v2 license yesterday. In his blog entry, Schwartz explains some of the reasons which led to open sourcing Java, like the Novell-Microsoft agreement. And more may come: "At an event today to formally open-source Java, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president and CEO, and Rich Green, the company's senior VP of software had an exchange in which Schwartz put Green on the spot about using GPL for OpenSolaris: 'Are you averse to changing the license, Rich Green?' Schwartz asked. 'Certainly not,' Green responded, prompting the Sun CEO to fire back in a half-joking manner: 'Will you GPL Solaris, Mr. Green?' 'We will take a close look at it,' Green said, adding that it was possible that the familiarity and comfort level many developers have with the GPL may result in Sun adopting it for OpenSolaris." Slashdot sources: hup.hu 1, hup.hu 2, hup.hu 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I think its AWESOME! Next hopefully opensolaris along with zfs/dtrace/zones and some other goodness go GPL2/3 and we could get some really cool stuff in Linux ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I don't get it. I can see how it helps projects like gcj, but I can't see how it helps me and I can't see how it helps Sun at all. So maybe in Mandriva 2008 there'll be a jvm included automatically for Free on the CDs - but I can already download Sun's jvm or jdk for gratis from sun.com. I guess it could remove some faint feeling of dirtiness on the part of java devs, that they're not using Free software, but as long as it works, and works reliably, on multiple platforms, then I don't feel dirty anyway. I'm sure that Sun will retain ownership of the brand "Java", but what's to stop the forks with unpredictable patches and names just different enough to cause confusion? (a la Iceweasel). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I'm a Java dev and I never felt dirty being so... The main advantages are the standard open source ones - e.g. bugs being found/fixed more quickly etc... It also means that other people will develop their own JVMs which will have various different advantages. Since they will also be GPL'ed then the best of those improvements will find their way back into Sun's JVM. There will be people adding their own proprietry features, but I think Sun's JVM will still be the main one ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I'm a Java dev and I never felt dirty being so...Neither do I, but there are those who think I should! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 Dirty is such a dirty word in the License world..... :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 I'm a Java dev and I never felt dirty being so...Neither do I, but there are those who think I should! I read through that - and, I'm sorry, but it's an overreaction and full of nonsense imho... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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