Le Mardi 14 Novembre 2006 14:48, vous avez écrit :
> Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > http://today.java.net/pub/a//today/2006/11/13/open-source-java-editorial.
> >html
> >
> > What does this good news mean to Gna!?
> >
> > I guess we should now accept all projects based on Java from Sun, am I
> > right?
>
>    It's still not crystal clear to me. Right now Sun is GPL'ing a
> compiler (javac) and a VM (hotspot), both of them already having quite
> fine free implementations (gcj, kaffe, etc.). The war is mainly on the
> framework (JDK), where GNU Classpath has always been lagging.
>
>    The article says that a part of Sun's JDK will be GPL'ed in 2007:
> that would be the real step forward for Sun. I suggest to wait for the
> official "JDK freedom day", then offer support by hosting Java projects,
> especially those that would fill the gap of "the few encumbered
> [proprietary] modules"...

I agree.

-- 
Mathieu Roy

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