Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee [LWN.net]

Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

Posted Dec 10, 2010 6:34 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

> It is certainly possible and Google has done so.

Are you talking about Dalvik here? That's based on Harmony. No?

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Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

Posted Dec 10, 2010 6:51 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes and with additional modifications from Google and it *is* Free software under the Apache license. Just because Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google doesn't make it automatically non-free.

Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

Posted Dec 10, 2010 20:56 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

But that will never be Java, because Oracle won't let it become Java. That's what all this is about.