infoworld.com— A Sun Microsystems Inc. executive said Tuesday said the company is "months" away from releasing its trademark Java programming language under an open-source license.
Jun 27, 2006View in Crawl 4
This is great news. Now maybe there's a chance I can run java on my computer and not have it behave like a 386-SX33 with 16 mb of ram trying to run XP.
Indeed. That's where GCJ comes in. _Hopefully_ Sun will release Java under a license that's truly free software, negating the need for it. Or at least allowing it to integrate code from Sun's Java, so that we'll have a compiler that fully supports Sun's feature set, but lets you complie to native code and integrate with other languages (something GCJ does, and Sun's Java doesn't)
Besides it's not about being GPL zealot, it's about efficiency. Why invent yet another license that's not compatible with GPL and thus the programs cannot be used in GPL project. That's plain stupid even if you don't care about GPL politics.
I'll believe it when I see it! This is just a bait and switch trick, first they say the GPL is "on the table" to get community support, then they quietly release it several months later under the CDDL
kindrobotJun 28, 2006
This is great news. Now maybe there's a chance I can run java on my computer and not have it behave like a 386-SX33 with 16 mb of ram trying to run XP.
bieberJun 28, 2006
Indeed. That's where GCJ comes in. _Hopefully_ Sun will release Java under a license that's truly free software, negating the need for it. Or at least allowing it to integrate code from Sun's Java, so that we'll have a compiler that fully supports Sun's feature set, but lets you complie to native code and integrate with other languages (something GCJ does, and Sun's Java doesn't)
Closed AccountJun 28, 2006
Besides it's not about being GPL zealot, it's about efficiency. Why invent yet another license that's not compatible with GPL and thus the programs cannot be used in GPL project. That's plain stupid even if you don't care about GPL politics.
sp1k3dJun 29, 2006
I'll believe it when I see it! This is just a bait and switch trick, first they say the GPL is "on the table" to get community support, then they quietly release it several months later under the CDDL
Closed AccountJun 29, 2006
It could be done today. Just publish all the source code files as they are.The end.