Green: Sun may release Solaris under GPL next
13th Nov 2006, 20:43 GMT
Open sourcing Java got its official start back in May when Suns new CEO Jonathan Schwartz and the new Executive Vice President of Software Rich Green took the stage at JavaOne 2006. During that presentation, Schwartz asked the question "Will Java be open sourced?" to which Green famously answered "Its not a matter of if, but of when".Fast forward 6 months to today. Looking more comfortable with each other than ever, Schwartz and Green took the floor once again to fulfill that promise. As has been widely reported, Sun announced they will begin immediately to open source Java SE, ME, and EE under the GNU Public License (GPL) version 2. This was endorsed on screen by various industry players such ...
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