Java is Free - As In GPL
As I said in my recent post - Java On The Next Billion Devices - Will History Repeat Itself? - all the signs were that we were a matter of days away from the Open Sourcing of the Java platform. Well, today’s the day - Sun Microsystems will announce the first big step to Open Sourcing the Java platform. And the really big news is that Java will be licensed under the GPL. You can’t get much more free than that - so I’ll be interested to see what the free software community has to say. From what I’ve seen so far, many are surprised and delighted at Sun’s choice of license.
You can watch the announcement by Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green later today (9.30am PT)
It will be worth following Tim Bray’s and Simon Phipps’s blogs, to get their takes.
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