Shashank "Shanky" Tiwari wrote: > If all the specifications get GPLed, what might be impact on commercial > vendors who sell JVMs and containers? Any ideas?
The specs won't get GPL-ed. What we are talking about is Sun's implementation of the spec getting put under an open source license, possibly the GPL. As for the commercial vendors? I don't think that there are many that actually sell a VM, at least for the use cases that I've used Java (desktop, server). I know the major JVM distributors license Sun's class library, so depending on the terms of the open source license, they just may be able to use it directly. Dunno. geir > > shanky > > On 6/1/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
