On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Andy wrote:
On 13/11/06, Albert Vilella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sun is announcing today that Java will be made available under version
2 of the GPL in a webcast at 9:30 US/Pacific this morning.
I am assuming 'PT' means pacific standard time?
$ date -d '09:30 PST'
Mon Nov 13 17:30:00 GMT 2006
I don't see where it says that its being open sourced under the GPL2,
I think we've only heard the GPLv2 part via leaks so far.
Do Lug Radio get credit for open sourcing Java ;)
I'm sure the boys would be not doubt happy to make out that they did. The
true is likely far more intricate---and I'm sure Ubuntu/Canonical has some
has had some subtle effect it making any (rumoured) change happen, should
that turn out to be the case.
What do we move onto next? Flash? maybe some media formats?
In the case of media formats. It is more about patents on the stream
formats/acoustic models. The code exists, just you can't legally use it in
some parts of the World with backward patent systems.
-Paul
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