Sun releases Java under GPLv2 [LWN.net]

Sun releases Java under GPLv2

Posted Nov 13, 2006 16:30 UTC (Mon) by danieldk (subscriber, #27876)
Parent article: Sun releases Java under GPLv2

GPLv2 + Classpath exception, pretty much all I could wish for :). Can't wait to see J2SE integrated in distributions, and ported to NetBSD and alike.

Thanks Sun!

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Sun releases Java under GPLv2

Posted Nov 13, 2006 19:36 UTC (Mon) by gravious (guest, #7662) [Link]

I second that. Can't wait for it to show up in Ubuntu. Thanks Sun!
May we live in interesting times. First Oracle makes a move on RedHat, then MS/Novell make sweet love and now Sun shares it crown jewels, whatever next..? ATI and Nvidia GPLv2 open source their drivers? :) Um... nah.

This URL has just got to bring a smile to even the grumpiest of FOSS peeps :) https://openjdk.dev.java.net/source/browse/openjdk/compil...

regards, Anto

Sun releases Java under GPLv2

Posted Nov 14, 2006 0:55 UTC (Tue) by Mithrandir (subscriber, #3031) [Link]

Is that the "Chinese" curse you're referring to there? ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_...