Q&A with Tim Bray
13th Nov 2006, 09:56 GMT
In the months and weeks leading up to todays announcement there was considerable speculation about which open source license Sun would choose for Java. When I learned it would be GPL, I had a number of concerns and questions about what this would mean for developers of both free and proprietary software. Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun, was kind enough to answer 24 of my questions over the weekend.Q: [Ed] What is being announced today?A: [Tim] The details will be coming out, but the essentials are: JVM and javac and JavaHelp and Java ME are pure GPL 2.0. The SE APIs/libraries are GPL 2.0 plus Classpath exception. Plus, we will continue to honor & make available the ...
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