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