As Stallman looks on, Sun frees Java under the GPL
13th Nov 2006, 09:56 GMT
After months of speculation, Sun has officially announced it is releasing its implementations of Java technology as free software under the GNU General Public License. Richard Stallman, creator of the GPL and founder of the Free Software Foundation, will endorse the move by video at a press conference Monday morning. Java SE, ME, and EE will all be available under GPLv2, the same license used by the Linux kernel. As before the announcement, commercial licenses will also be available.This article provides a summary of what is being released and when. Developers may wish to refer to the Q&A with Tim Bray for more technical details.AvailablityThe first pieces of source code are available today:Java HotSpot technology (JVM)Java programming language compiler (javac)JavaHelp ...
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