Re: "Sun Says GPL Is a Possibility for OSS Java"

[Casey Marshall]

On Jun 1, 2006, at 9:29 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:49:36PM +0000, theUser BL wrote:

At OSNews.com at
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14770
stand, that a GPL Java could be possible.

I have now seen, that the links ends up in Suns blog at
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan

There he writes:

much *on* the table), [...]"

"But all in all, a really great week - we're now making serious progress on open sourcing Java (and despite the cynics, using a GPL license is very

I can't parse that sentence. Is Schwartz leading a tough fight against
evil cynics inside Sun to get the GPL considered?

And in the next sentence he talks about compatibility, which politely seems to be mentioning Sun's fear of forks yet again, which they will probably never drop.

PGP.sig
Description: This is a digitally signed message part