Mathieu Roy wrote:
http://today.java.net/pub/a//today/2006/11/13/open-source-java-editorial.html
What does this good news mean to Gna!?
I guess we should now accept all projects based on Java from Sun, am I right?
It's still not crystal clear to me. Right now Sun is GPL'ing a
compiler (javac) and a VM (hotspot), both of them already having quite
fine free implementations (gcj, kaffe, etc.). The war is mainly on the
framework (JDK), where GNU Classpath has always been lagging.
The article says that a part of Sun's JDK will be GPL'ed in 2007:
that would be the real step forward for Sun. I suggest to wait for the
official "JDK freedom day", then offer support by hosting Java projects,
especially those that would fill the gap of "the few encumbered
[proprietary] modules"...
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