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Sun Announces Java Platform Standard Edition 6

Sun Announces Java Platform Standard Edition 6

Posted Dec 12, 2006 1:43 UTC (Tue) by bk (guest, #25617)
In reply to: Sun Announces Java Platform Standard Edition 6 by sab39
Parent article: Sun Announces Java Platform Standard Edition 6

And as I understand it they will indeed continue to release the same code under a proprietary license for the benefit of people who are afraid to touch GPL code.

So in essence that will make code sharing one-way only: Sun JDK -> GNU Classpath, since Sun cannot release code they don't own copyright to under a proprietary license. Sun JDK development will not benefit very much from an open development environment.


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