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Sun releases Java under GPLv2Sun releases Java under GPLv2Posted Nov 13, 2006 19:01 UTC (Mon) by tjc (guest, #137)In reply to: Sun releases Java under GPLv2 by bradfitz Parent article: Sun releases Java under GPLv2
Wow. Time to care about Java again.Yes it is, at least a little bit. Hopefully someone will publish a short, concise article about the implications of all this. I tried to read the Sun press release, but my PR/BS filter keeps crashing...
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Sun releases Java under GPLv2 Posted Nov 13, 2006 21:12 UTC (Mon) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link] One implication of this is that because it permits all Linux distros to include Java from the get-go, installation and management software can now be built with Java. Said software has been built with other languages in the past (eg Python) so I don't know how much difference this would really make.
It also makes possible (at least from a license standpoint) tighter integration of the JVM with the kernel, or kernel optimizatons to support the JVM, to improve Java performance. Whether the kernel devs think this is a good idea or not is another issue.
Sun releases Java under GPLv2 Posted Nov 13, 2006 22:53 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] Yeah, all good points. My notebook currently displays this, when "java -version" is run:
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Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
I'm hoping that in the future this will be replaced by something like:
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Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Hey, one can dream, right? ;-)
PR/BS filters Posted Nov 14, 2006 3:32 UTC (Tue) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] > I tried to read the Sun press release, but my PR/BS filter> keeps crashing...
Would you care to file a proper bug report?
PR/BS filters Posted Nov 14, 2006 15:27 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] Would you care to file a proper bug report?I wouldn't know where to file it. :-) Every press release I've ever read is the same: "[company name] is proud to announce blah blah blah..." After a few seconds I realize that my attention has drifted, so I start over, but a few second later I'm back to "blah blah blah." Since press releases are so much the same, I wonder if one couldn't come up with a heuristic algorithm to filter out all the crap. For example, one would a PR as input, the the program would output something like "Sun releases Java SE, ME, and EE under the GPL, version 2."
PR/BS filters Posted Nov 14, 2006 19:28 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] That would be an AWESOME natural language algorithm. Please, somebody invent it. I'd use it daily.
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