jonathan carter

Sun Java to be GPL’d

// November 13th, 2006 // Free Software

From http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6134584.html:

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After years of requests and debates, Sun Microsystems is ready to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license.

On Monday, it plans to put the code for the programming software under the version 2 of the General Public License (GPLv2), which governs Linux and many other open-source products. The Sun-hosted Java.net Web site will provide access to Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) software for mobile phones and Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) software for desktop applications.

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And most of us were only hoping for a CDDL version. I’m very excited to see Java getting GPL’d. It will make my work in our schools much easier, now we can actually distribute Java with our software!

Now that the FSF needs to spend less resources on the Free Java implementation, I hope that they will put more resources into GNU Gnash. If they can complete that, then our tuXlab schools would be independent of proprietary software (excluding the curriculum, of course). I hope we see a supported version of GNU Gnash in Ubuntu some time soon too…