Not that I've studied the terms in detail (I have managed to avoid the
need for Sun source so far), but Sun's terms are still structured to
generate income. They're definitely not GPL! The big difference is that
you pay Sun when you deploy rather than when you develop -- it's easy to
get the source, but you've got some very non-GPLish terms when you want
to distribute anything you've used the source in. For noncommercial
products, this may not involve payment but it undoubtedly involves
restrictions.
Nathan
Albrecht Kleine wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've heard that it is possible to get
> JDK sources in a much relaxed way than earlier.
>
> I know, this is no lawyer's list, but perhaps some
> of you can write about license compatibility to GPL?
>
> For example I've written the TYA JIT under clean room
> conditions, but looking on JDK sources would
> pollute the clean room, no doubt.
>
> OTOH if Sun releases their sources, writing JDK related
> but GPLed software knowing their sources would not
> disclose any secrets (because Sun disclosed this himself).
> So it should be possible.
>
> But what if someone would cut & paste some code lines
> from this sources into his own GPLed code? IMHO impossible.
>
> And what if you have accepted the license, will you be still
> free to contribute to direct competitors of JDK (for example
> kaffe or Japhar)?
>
> Cheers
> Albrecht
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