On 2/9/2010 6:45 AM, Karsten Silz wrote:
On Feb 9, 12:57 pm, opinali<[email protected]> wrote:
The license OTOH sucks indeed; Sun has officially promised that JavaFX
would eventually be full open source - Rich Green from Sun was clear
about this years ago in the first JavaOnes that hyped JavaFX, so I
will continue to quote this to remember everybody that Sun either lied
or broke a promise to developers, until they (now Oracle) open source
at least the desktop runtime. (javafxc is already open source, but
that's clearly insufficient. There are some encumbered pieces like
codecs but missing these would be ok, the FOSS community could replace
them.)
"just open source" for licenses isn't enough - if Oracle wants
commercial JavaFX applications, then they need to change the
Scenegraph license from GPL to a more liberal license (e.g., Apache /
BSD style).
That's not going to happen as I see it with anything Sun/Oracle
releases. Maybe LGPL / GPL+Classpath Exception, but they didn't go with
GPL by accident. They really want all additions/extensions to be forced
back into the open -- period.
Personally I'm fine with that -- as long as they move to LGPL /
GPL+Classpath Exception. GPL itself is viral, potentially impacting
one's entire product, whereas LGPL just forces changes to the library
itself back to the community, which is a good thing.
--
Jess Holle
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