If sun was smart they would create a CPAN for JAVA. Or they could just drop JAVA for PERL. ( just kidding :) )
CPAN rules ! Mark Michael Torrie wrote:
At the risk of re-opening an old thread that I am guilty of prolonging, details of the Java GPL release are trickling out. Looks like the runtime libraries themselves will be GPL with a special linking exception (similar to GLIBC). Sun will retain the copyright (of course), and ask that any contributions to Java turn over the copyright, allowing Java to be dual-licensed. This way companies that want to license the Sun source code can do so without having to make their own code GPL. This is a win-win for Sun. They can continue to cultivate commercial contracts and associations while giving Java a life of its own under the GPL. Also we can immediately see projects like the GNU CLasspath merging Java code into their own code bases, producing a completely compatible, completely free version of Java, or else just disappearing entirely (since the real classpath is now completely free in every way). Not to mention we'll see immediate porting of Java to all the Linux platforms that currently do not support it (although porting a JIT takes a lot of work). This is indeed great news and makes RedHat very very happy, as they have started to embrace Java, with the GNU gcj and classpath system. I also note that RedHat's lawyers are still okay with them distributing Mono in Fedora Core (only a few gnome apps are C#, and they aren't core), as they believe that MS's patents largely do not cover the parts of the EMCA standard that gnome apps use (IE they don't use ASP.net, etc). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
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