Re: Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement

2006-11-18 Thread Boris DuĊĦek
On Friday 17 November 2006 19:48, Nick Hill wrote: is probably overdue. better late, than later (or even never :-)

Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement

2006-11-17 Thread Nick Hill
Following a discussion on #classpath IRC at around 6pm BST, we have arrived at a potential response to SUNs announcement of the impending release of SUN Java under the GPL. We welcome Sun's announcement of the forthcoming release of Java under the GNU GPL. Sun's announcement makes Java an

Re: Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement

2006-11-17 Thread Stuart Ballard
On 11/17/06, Nick Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reaction of many Classpath developers can be seen on planet.classpath.org. On IRC the sentence we came up with - but possibly after you drafted your mail - was The planet.classpath.org website carries the reactions of many individual

Re: Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement

2006-11-17 Thread David Daney
Nick Hill wrote: Following a discussion on #classpath IRC at around 6pm BST, we have arrived at a potential response to SUNs announcement of the impending release of SUN Java under the GPL. We welcome Sun's announcement of the forthcoming release of Java under the GNU GPL. Sun's

Re: Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement

2006-11-17 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 11:09 -0800, David Daney wrote: If an official response is deemed necessary, this one seems good. It is fairly content free, which I think is all you can have given the constraints that it is a press release *and* from a moderatly large free software project. To