hard candy
05-25-2006, 06:42 AM
The Curious Incident Of Sun In The Night Time (http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/05/24/1154233.shtml?tid=150)
Sun's Java implementation remains proprietary software, just as before. It doesn't come close to meeting the criteria for free software, or the similar but slightly looser criteria for open source. Its source code is available only under an NDA.
From another article:
"Developed in consultation with, and for use by, the various GNU/Linux communities, the new license allows distributors to ship Sun's Java SE 5.0 Java Development Kit (JDK(TM)) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE(TM)) as installable packages for their operating systems.
Several project teams are expected to announce plans to redistribute the JDK, packaged for use with their operating systems, including the Ubuntu, Gentoo and Debian distributions of GNU/Linux, NexentaOS, a hybrid operating system with an OpenSolaris kernel and GNU applications and both the Schillix and BeleniX versions of OpenSolaris."
Universal Press Agency (http://www.universalpressagency.info/index.php?action=article&id_article=372825)
So SUn java is not open source yet, you have to agree to a license before it installs, and the GNU organization is still developing their version of a java compiler/classpaths.
"We in the GNU Project continue developing the GNU Compiler for Java and GNU Classpath; we made great progress in the past year, so our free platform for Java is included in many major GNU/Linux distros. If you want to run Java and have freedom, please join in and help."
One thing I did notice was that the articles from various sources did refer to GNU/Linux instead of just Linux.
Sun's Java implementation remains proprietary software, just as before. It doesn't come close to meeting the criteria for free software, or the similar but slightly looser criteria for open source. Its source code is available only under an NDA.
From another article:
"Developed in consultation with, and for use by, the various GNU/Linux communities, the new license allows distributors to ship Sun's Java SE 5.0 Java Development Kit (JDK(TM)) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE(TM)) as installable packages for their operating systems.
Several project teams are expected to announce plans to redistribute the JDK, packaged for use with their operating systems, including the Ubuntu, Gentoo and Debian distributions of GNU/Linux, NexentaOS, a hybrid operating system with an OpenSolaris kernel and GNU applications and both the Schillix and BeleniX versions of OpenSolaris."
Universal Press Agency (http://www.universalpressagency.info/index.php?action=article&id_article=372825)
So SUn java is not open source yet, you have to agree to a license before it installs, and the GNU organization is still developing their version of a java compiler/classpaths.
"We in the GNU Project continue developing the GNU Compiler for Java and GNU Classpath; we made great progress in the past year, so our free platform for Java is included in many major GNU/Linux distros. If you want to run Java and have freedom, please join in and help."
One thing I did notice was that the articles from various sources did refer to GNU/Linux instead of just Linux.