Sun releases Java under GPLv2 [LWN.net]

Sun releases Java under GPLv2

Posted Nov 13, 2006 16:33 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Sun releases Java under GPLv2 by sbergman27
Parent article: Sun releases Java under GPLv2

Actually if you read the link he said that if they open it 'there's nothing wrong anymore'. i.e., pretty much the opposite of what you thought :)

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Sun releases Java under GPLv2

Posted Nov 13, 2006 19:01 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

Well, I've read the link now. (My original point was that I felt I pretty much knew what it would say beforehand.)

I'd say (now that I have read it) that I was right. Sun has now cleansed there souls and there is nothing wrong now. (Better late than never.) It's hard to see RMS disapproving once Java is put under his license, after all.

Sun releases Java under GPLv2

Posted Nov 14, 2006 12:27 UTC (Tue) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]

Your original post states that without RTFA, you know beforehand that RMS will go on about how Sun still needs to cleanse their souls for ever developing non-free software, and then it turns out that RMS said that he is happy with Sun and that they are doing nothing wrong anymore.

Your conclusion: You where right about what RMS would say all along.

With such a liberal reading of 'right', I fail to see how anyone could ever be wrong.

Sun releases Java under GPLv2

Posted Nov 14, 2006 18:52 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

Does it really matter? ;-)

This topic was worth a post or two. But I can't see dragging this out.

I'd say "draw your own conclusions" and I'm fine with that.

-Steve Bergman