>>> Reply on 13-11-2006 12:38:39 <<<> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:59:26AM +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As it's writting on different news places and in blogs of Sun Workers
> > (http://blogs.sun.com/dannycoward/entry/java_me,_se_and_ee:), Java is
> > now REALLY GPLed. The product is put under the explicit GPL v2 (not
> v2
>
> No, you should read these documents more closely: It is _announced_ that
> this
> will happen, it is not done yet. Knowing the history of announcements
> Sun has
> made about that topic I would not trust them before they actually
> _happened_.
>
> > or later) and can now also beincluded in openSUSE default
> > installations.
> > 
> > probably already to late for 10.2 shipment, but who knows.. maybe AJ
> > has a good mood and brings it in?
>
> First half of year 2007 for making it completely open source is
> definitely too
> late for 10.2, maybe even for 10.3.
>

Robert,

 

Yes, right. Today only the compiler hits the new License. Most probably, they will just wait for the Java 6 to get out on the shelfs using the GPL. So very bad.

 

On the other hand, I have the AddOnCD and don't really care that much for it. I'm not one running after every single soft just because it's free. I even dare to run closed source software under Linux. And it doesn't make me feel bad :-)

 

Dominique