5 May
2004
5 May
'04
4:08 a.m.
Rakesh 'arky' Ambati wrote:
You must have read the story about Sun planning to release Java under GPL.Can someone write a commentary with FSF perspective.
Their plan is to release Solaris under GPL. So far, Sun had been resisting the very idea of "open-sourcing" Java.
Richard Stallman's commentary on freeing up Java: http://www.sys-con.com/story/print.cfm?storyid=44472
GCJ and GNU classpath projects are there, and the language and its runtime specs are (hopefully) out there in the open. It would be a better idea to help those projects?
Sajith.
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