Sun to Open-Source Java Under GPL

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Journal Alphager's Journal: Sun to Open-Source Java Under GPL

Journal by Alphager on Sunday November 12, 2006 @08:55AM

Eweek is reporting that Sun will Open-Source Java under the GPLv2. The portions of Java to be released are:
JAVA SE
JAVA ME
JEE

This includes the Java Runtime Environment and the Java SDK, which should ease the integration of Java into linux-distributions.

Netbeans and Catfish will be relicensed under the CDDL and the GPLv2.

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