On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote: > > JavaFX has a very restrictive licencse and is pretty heavy > > JavaFX is also becoming open source. > > "At JavaOne 2011, Oracle Corporation announced that JavaFX 2.0 would > become open source[17]. Since December 2011, Oracle began to open > source the JavaFX code under the GPL+linking exception" > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX > > http://openjdk.java.net/projects/openjfx/ > > I wish people would stop the anti-Java FUD... but the misinformation > is rampant and is continuously being spread... like in the above > example. > > FC > This is not missinformation, like you mentioned, it has only been anounced to be GPL about 6 months ago, GPL is not compatible with Apache license. Also is slower than C/C++, and is also true that most people actually want to take Java dependencies off the platform. A good example is the OOo4Kids and OOoLight fork which kicked Java out of the platform tom the very early version.
