David Gilbert wrote:
No, and probably by design. If this is true, Sun's Java will fill the
niche market for free-as-in-freedom runtimes, making it very hard for
Harmony (and GNU Classpath) to find an audience. But if all you want is
a free-as-in-freedom runtime, then the outcome is still great!
I dunno. Maybe.
I think that in order to really work for the "free-as-in-stallman" ;)
community, someone will have to literally fork sun's GPL-ed
implementation, as I'm guessing GPL advocates will want to be able to
contribute / augment / maintain the codebase, but not allow Sun to
re-license their contributions under commercial terms.
This is only a guess. I can't speak for GPL advocates, nor am I sure
what Sun will do in the end wrt community and governance.
No matter what, it won't be boring.
geir
Regards,
Dave Gilbert
http://www.jfree.org/
Leo Li wrote:
Is it a good news for Harmony?
On 11/9/06, Andrew Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml;?articleId=193600331
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Best regards,
Andrew Zhang
