theUser BL wrote:
JavaONE 2006 is over. Sun have not opend Java, as many people have hoped.
No one really expected it.
The thing that JS did was formally commit his company to doing so in
public. It's a step forward.
But Sun hold on the speculations, if Suns Java will be OpenSource or not.
At OSNews.com at
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14770
stand, that a GPL Java could be possible.
yes, because of a statement in JS's blog, as you note below.
The links ends up at Jonathan Schwatzs blog at
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan
where he writes
"But all in all, a really great week - we're now making serious progress
on open sourcing Java (and despite the cynics, using a GPL license is
very much *on* the table), [...]"
I found his phrasing "despite the cynics" ironic, because we cynics
expect that it would be GPL or something equally as restrictive in
order to preserve as much control as possible.
geir
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