Oliver Fels wrote:
> Just for your interest and in case noone has mentioned it yet:
>
> Sun is now making the source code to the JavaŽ 2 platform
> available to the developer community.
>
Yes, but *please* think twice before committing your soul to Sun!
I hope it is clear that the second you agree to their license, you can forget
about contributing to Japhar, Classpath, Kaffe, etcetera - the real Open Source
alternatives to Sun's JDK. If your company agrees to the license, I guess
you're tainted as well - a Bad Thing if you want to contribute to a free
JVM/class library.
I like to read the acronym SCSL as "Sun Community" source license, not as Sun
"Community Source License". They define the community, you see.
I've been so stupid to sign into the source license for 1.0.2, so I've signed
it for 1.1 and now 1.2 as well. But I'd rather cooperate on an alternative to
the JDK. I can't, because I'm tainted - if I were to submit a single patch to
one of the alternatives, or even to TYA, they wouldn't be clean room efforts
anymore.
You can see the openness involved with the SCSL: if they were serious about
openness, they'd have lifted the restrictions for the Blackdown porting team by
now. Methinks that with the JCK tests, Blackdown is at the debugging stage and
that can be perfectly paralellized - hundreds of people on the list would
gladly jump in. That they haven't done so, shows that Sun, as a corporation, is
not really committed to a Linux JDK or to openness.
This is their good right, just as it is our right to make sure that there'll be
a non-Sun alternative JVM+classlib. I'd rather have people excercise that right
then bind into the Sun Community.
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