infoworld.com — Expect the open-sourcing of the Java programming language to be done in incremental steps, with some pieces available by next June -- but not the entire platform, Robert Brewin, co-CTO of Sun Microsystems' software group, said Monday afternoon
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pupenoJul 19, 2006
It would be nice if Sun would use a GPL-compatible license this time.Hey, Sun! are you reading ? pick one from here <a class="user" href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses,">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses,</a> from the where it says "Software Licenses" up to where it says "GPL-Incompatible, Free Software Licenses"; when you rich that, stop scrolling, there are no more interesting options.
ratataskJul 19, 2006
>there could be a couple reasons why they would not open source all of it. First they may need to >get the code looking goof for them to release it.Newsflash: The VM source code has been freely available from Sun for many years now.The source code for the class library comes with the SDK(JDK or whatever they call it these days).Here's one of the latest: <a class="user" href="http://www.java.net/download/jdk6/beta2/jdk-6-beta2-src-b86-jrl-02_jun_2006.jar">http://www.java.net/download/jdk6/beta2/jdk-6-beta2-src-b86-jrl-02_jun_2006.jar</a>
zerblatJul 19, 2006
Nope. They did open source Solaris, and a bunch of other software, but Java is still proprietary (although they have promised to open source it for years now...)
Closed AccountJul 19, 2006Submitter
@millifooi soo wanna code Blava :-)