Java now GPL

vineavinea
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
Holy toledo...Sun just GPL'd Java...



http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp



Vinea

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 2
    zandroszandros Posts: 537member
    Oh my, why GPL...
  • Reply 2 of 2
    vineavinea Posts: 5,585member
    Yah...I was kinda thinking that. But at least its GPL v2 without (I think) or later version clause and it has a classpath exception.



    In practice its not that much worse than CDDL and since Sun owns the rights they can dual license as they want or need.



    Vinea
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