Levi Bard wrote:
>> 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.
>
Well, hey. If the M$/Novell thing kills Linux, maybe we could switch to
a Solaris list... ;-P
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