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clarification needed...

clarification needed...

Posted May 17, 2006 18:50 UTC (Wed) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)
Parent article: Java becomes more distributable

my understanding is that these changes make it easier for distributions to package the sun jre/jdk, but do not in fact signal a true FOSS release of the code. is this accurate?


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Posted May 17, 2006 19:42 UTC (Wed) by GreyWizard (subscriber, #1026) [Link]

"For all the hints made at JavaOne regarding the eventual open-sourcing of Java, this code remains resolutely non-free at this time."

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