Sun Releases Java Under GPL Open Source License
November 20, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
About time. It only took two changes of the executive guard at Sun Microsystems and the better part of a decade, but last week Sun finally began the process of open sourcing all of its Java technology. And in something of a shocker that quite literally left the audience of techies and the press speechless, Sun chose the GNU General Public License v2 as the means of letting go of Java. When Sun finally let go, it did it with style and despite the contrarian views of many, Sun picked the best license to ensure the broadest amount of protection |