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vinea
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November 13, 2006 1:42PM
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Holy toledo...Sun just GPL'd Java...
http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp
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zandros
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November 13, 2006 2:42PM
Oh my, why GPL...
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vinea
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November 13, 2006 3:43PM
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.
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In practice its not that much worse than CDDL and since Sun owns the rights they can dual license as they want or need.
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