[sorry for cross posting]
"Months of speculation and waiting are now over. Sun will release key parts of Java under GPLv2 today (November 13th, Monday). The initial release today will include the HotSpot runtime, javac compiler, JavaHelp, and Sun's Java ME implementation. The rest of Java will be released under GPLv2 early next year.
Richard Stallman of the FSF has endorsed the move, and will appear on a live web cast http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp with Sun CEO Johnathan Schwartz and software chief Rich Green. "
http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t84244.html
Great win for Free Software.
Cheers Praveen
"പ്രവീണ്|Praveen" pravi.a@gmail.com writes:
"Months of speculation and waiting are now over. Sun will release key parts of Java under GPLv2 today (November 13th, Monday)
Richard Stallman gave his comments on Sun freeing Java in an interview 2 weeks ago. I've put a transcript online: http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/rms_recently_...
Hello List,
To quote Jonathan Schwartz , CEo,Sun.
<quote>
By admitting that one of the strongest motivations to select the GPL was the announcement made last week by Novell and Microsoft, suggesting that free and open source software wasn't safe unless a royalty was being paid. As an executive from one of those companies said, "free has to have a price."
That's nonsense. </quote>
Regards Nishan.
On 13 Nov 2006 12:40:12 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran@fsfe.org wrote:
"പ്രവീണ്|Praveen" pravi.a@gmail.com writes:
"Months of speculation and waiting are now over. Sun will release key
parts
of Java under GPLv2 today (November 13th, Monday)
Richard Stallman gave his comments on Sun freeing Java in an interview 2 weeks ago. I've put a transcript online:
http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/rms_recently_...
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