[ale] Sun's Java GPL contribution

Chris Ricker kaboom at oobleck.net
Mon Nov 13 23:06:32 EST 2006


On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> I haven't read the announcement, but other e-mails I've read said Sun
> announced that they would do this in March.
> 
> March is a long way away and corporate decisions have a way of
> changing over time, so I suggest we wait for the real thing before
> getting too excited.

Parts have already been posted

See

https://openjdk.dev.java.net/

for zips and svn repositories for what's been opened so far 
(HotSpot virtual machine and javac compiler)

If it's handled like the opening of Solaris, more will appear over time as 
it clears Sun's legal....

later,
chris



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