> I am surprised this has not come up on the list yet. For those that have not
> heard, Sun has decided to release Java under the GPL license[1] and is
> considering releasing Solaris under the GPL as well. This is amazing news
> and a tremendous contribution from Sun.
>
> Jonathon
>
> [1] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/
It's great news. Supposedly they're looking at what all they need to
do in order to GPL the SDKs as well (they only released the JREs now).
When the full SDKs become GPL, there will be a ton of codeswapping
between the sun toolkits and the other free ones.
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