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SpringSource Team Blog " Open Source, Open Strategy: The SpringSource Manifesto
"We are not changing and will not change the license of any existing project. The Spring Portfolio will remain under the Apache License. This covers the Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Web Flow and the rest of the Spring Portfolio."
Stefano's Linotype ~ Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME
Android using Java-the-language & the Java SE library, but not the JVM
Stefano's Linotype ~ Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME
Interesting. The short story is that Google's Android has its own virtual machine and bytecode format that it has created a Java language compiler for. Funny thing about this is that I think the Java language is terrible and the JVM is more valuable becau
Stefano's Linotype ~ Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME
Google's trick to get around the viral GPL restrictions on Sun's Java is to compile java to non-java bytecodes... Dalvik is a virtual<sep/>
» Sun becomes a patron of the Free Software Foundation | Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com
This isn't correct. People won't assign copyrights to Sun if Sun is going to take the code and use it in proprietary software.
Sun exec rallies behind GPLv3
More coverage of my GPL v3 blog.
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Ryan Tomayko - Java in The Land of Make Believe
"From my perspective, the GPL puts Java back in the race for potentially useful technologies over the next decade because it makes it possible for Java to stop being such a massive pain in the ass."
Ryan Tomayko - Java in The Land of Make Believe
"From my perspective, the GPL puts Java back in the race for potentially useful technologies over the next decade because it makes it possible for Java to stop being such a massive pain in the ass."
EclipseZone - Is the Sun VM under GPL a good thing? ...
Eclipse, EPL, Java, GPL
EclipseZone - Is the Sun VM under GPL a good thing? ...
Eclipse, EPL, Java, GPL
'Linux-Friendly' is not GNU
Sun Microsystems' new GNU/Linux-friendly Distro License for Java (DLJ) does not go far enough for Red Hat.
Open Source Java, Part 3 - Miguel de Icaza
very interesting and thoughtful piece from Miguel on open sourcing Java; check out especially his commentary on OO.o and Solaris - as well as the comparions in the last sentence
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Linux-friendly Java
Sun Microsystems plans to alter its licensing to make it easier to bundle Java Runtime Environment with Linux.