Hi all! Here is an interesting Side of Sun: http://www.sun.com/developers/openoffice/gpl.html The interesting points are the following: > [...] That is a good and valid question, but let's not lose sight > of the main point: First and foremost, GPL is the right thing to > do for the StarOffice suite, and it will benefit the community as > a whole. > [...] There stand "first and foremost", so it is possible, that in any time Java is licensed under the GPL, too. :-) > Unlike the Solaris Operating Environment and Java technology, > StarOffice is a self-contained suite of end-user applications > with few external dependencies. So, there on Java there exists not only "a few external dependencies", there existing a lot of code by other concern in Java. If Sun replaced the code by other concerns: Is it possible, that other people can help Sun for it, or don't let Sun other people to the code, before its GPLed? An other point is, that (if I have the text rightly under understood, that Java [and Solaris] are not end-user applications) Java is an "end-user applications", too. Not the whole J2SE (SDK), only the JRE is something, which is for end-user. Patrick
