Sun Java Going Open-Source

profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
edited November 2006 in Science & Tech
Remember the big Java wars of a few years ago? Much has changed since then.
Santa Clara-based Sun said it is making nearly all of Java's source code — excluding small pockets of code that aren't owned by Sun — available under the GNU General Public License. The same type of license also covers the distribution of the core, or kernel, of the popular open-source operating system Linux, which competes against Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.
Source: MSNBC

Comments

  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited November 2006
    The source was always available/open, iirc. Now, they just changed to the gpl (v2) license.
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