Today at JavaOne 2006, Sun made a huge step toward bringing Java to the open source development community...Sun has recast the Java licensing allowing Java SE 5.0 JDK and the JRE to be redistributed with OpenSolaris distributions. The new license allows the open source communities to define the packaging, installation and support for the JDK within their distribution.
"Demonstrating the enthusiastic support of the Open Source development community, the Ubuntu, Gentoo and Debian distributions of GNU/Linux, NexentaOS, a hybrid OS with OpenSolaris kernel and GNU applications, SchilliX and the BeleniX distributions of OpenSolaris plan to exercise the new license to include JDK packages in upcoming builds of their distributions." Sun is also opening a new community project on Java.net (https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net ) to serve as a clearinghouse of information and best practices for delivering compatibly packaged JDK bundles on GNU/Linux and OpenSolaris. This is a great opportunity--check it out and see if you can contribute any help to getting the packages up, running and tested! Congratulations to BeleniX, NexentaOS and SchilliX for being featured in the press announcement during the keynote at JavaOne! Just a few quotes... ?This new license shows that Sun and the Java technology world care about GNU/Linux and open source platforms and are willing to put aside philosophical differences and get down to business,? said Mark Shuttleworth, founder and sponsor of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, the most-downloaded GNU/Linux in the world for the last eight months. ?This eliminates one of the biggest roadblocks to wider use of the Java platform on free and open source operating system platforms and makes Java technology a more attractive foundation on which to build new projects and innovations.? ?We are really pleased to see Sun's increasing involvement in the free software community, from the opening of the Solaris source and now the relicensing of Java to be compatible with GNU/LInux distributions, and are looking forward to building stronger ties with the Sun community in the future?, said Anthony Towns, Debian Project Leader. More Coming from JavaOne! LKR More info on Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com), Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org), Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org), NexentaOS (http://www.Nexenta.com) and OpenSolaris (http://www.openSolaris.org/os) , Shillix (http://schillix.berlios.de) and BeleniX (http://www.belenix.org ) For more information on the DLJ please visit the jdk-distros project at https://jdk-distros.dev.vava.net.
