This really doesn't change anything, AFAICT.
Most of the JARs are already open sourced under Glassfish (CDDL).
I suppose there may be some additional GPL'd ones in OpenJDK. But
they'll only be the Java7 versions, which won't be released for a
long time.
AFAIK, the license on the problematic old versions of JARs remains as
is.
- Brett
On 15/11/2006, at 8:31 PM, Steve Loughran wrote:
easyproglife wrote:
Hi all.
As you may know, Sun has recently announced releasing Java
products as
open-source.
See: http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/
The question is if from now on, tools like ivy and maven would be
able to
get Sun's artifacts freely and automatically?
Until recently, Sun required you to agree on their license prior
to (manual)
downloading.
Do you think this is going to change?
If so, do you think we (as Ivy and Maven users) should ask sun to
let the
tools download the artifacts automatically?
This is probably a q. for the repository mail list.
Once the artifacts get freed up, then yes, we should be able to
pull them down. There is a small m1 repository on java.net that
serves up some of the javaEE stuff already.
