[SGVLUG] Sun open sources Java under the GPL

[Dustin Laurence]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:41:47PM -0800, Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:
> i am sense your main objection to java seemed to be it was not open source.

Yep, well, that and the fact that sometimes when Sun plays with open
source it tries to finesse the issue in some tricky
have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too way (say, by issuing some new
GPL-incompatible licence).  So I am very happy that Sun simply GPL'd it,
no weasel tricks that I saw.  No attempt to split codebases with the
CDDL or something.  Just GPL.

I have other technical objections to Java, but those are of a different
kind and in particular have nothing to do with open source Java
applications being dangerous Trojan horses for us.  I have always
avoided depending on anything written in Java (unless it can be built
with GCJ, say), but I guess I can stop that now.

So yeah, a very very good day.

Dustin

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