On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:17:57 -0800 gah said: >Jeff Savit wrote: > > > Sun has open-sourced Java - under GPL - so an enterprising soul can do > > the port themselves if they want, just as we open-sourced Solaris. Get > > the Java source here: > >Is it GPL? Last I knew (not so recently) Sun had its own >open source license. I don't remember the terms anymore. >Usually you have to register (free) to get the source.
Well, according to this http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6134584.html and http://www.news.com/2100-7344_3-6134584.html from Nov 2006, they were about to announce it as GPL2. According to http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp They did. Though is doesn't seem that way from the rest of their site. Sun's web site is confusing at best about licensing for Java technologies. There is also the Sun Community Source Licensing (SCSL) http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/j2se/java2/download.xml which appears to be what is currently used Now the open Source Initiative has many licenses that it considers to be "open source". You have to submit your license to them for evaluation. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical SCSL is not listed. The Sun Industry Standards Source License is listed, as is the Sun Public License. > >-- glen > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit >http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
