You've beat me with these comments. Additionally, the Linux community likes the GPL-family licenses, and this is enough reason to pick such licenses. OpenJDK builds are already finding their way as standard packages of Linux distros; companies like RedHat are investing in Java (JBoss product line, IcedTea / OpenJDK contribs) so I think Java's future is great at least in the "Enterprise Linux" niche, if not yet for broader Linux usage.
A+ Osvaldo On Feb 9, 11:26 am, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
