Re: GPL vs Sun license

1999-02-23 Thread Moses DeJong
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Albrecht Kleine wrote: > Hi, The new license may be "less restricted" but it is clearly not "more free". > I've heard that it is possible to get > JDK sources in a much relaxed way than earlier. > > I know, this is no lawyer's list, but perhaps some > of you can write ab

Re: GPL vs Sun license

1999-02-23 Thread Nathan Meyers
Not that I've studied the terms in detail (I have managed to avoid the need for Sun source so far), but Sun's terms are still structured to generate income. They're definitely not GPL! The big difference is that you pay Sun when you deploy rather than when you develop -- it's easy to get the sourc

GPL vs Sun license

1999-02-23 Thread Albrecht Kleine
Hi, I've heard that it is possible to get JDK sources in a much relaxed way than earlier. I know, this is no lawyer's list, but perhaps some of you can write about license compatibility to GPL? For example I've written the TYA JIT under clean room conditions, but looking on JDK sources would p