Sun Open Sources Java

[Mike Parker]

Gregor Richards wrote:
> Zz wrote:
>> I'm not a java fan but I found this interesting.
>>
>> You might find this interesting.
>> It includes the compiler and HotSpotVM.
>>
>> http://openjdk.java.net/
>>
>> For the Compiler and HotSpotVM which is in C++
>> http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk7/
>>
>> Zz
> 
> Sun is doing as good a job F/OSS-ing Java as they did F/OSS-ing 
> "Open"Solaris.
> 
> Or, to put it bluntly: Java is not F/OSS. Some chunks of it which are 
> useless in isolation are. It probably never will be wholly F/OSS. The 
> only product Sun has every successfully F/OSS'd is OpenOffice.
> 
>  - Gregor Richards
> 
> PS: This is very old news ;)

It's not *that* old. Unless you're referring to the Sun Open Source 
license (or whatever it was called) that they have been using for the 
past couple of years. They first announced that Java would be GPLed only 
a couple of months ago. It was to be in a staged release, to culminate 
with the official announcement at JavaOne. It's GPL with the Classpath 
exception. What more should they do?