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Java to be Open Sourced in October

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coffee-in-the-fall dept.

thePowerOfGrayskull writes "Sun is now stating that the Hotspot JVM and javac will be open-sourced in October of this year, with the rest to follow by the end of 2007. There is still no word as to which license it will be released under. For those who haven't seen it yet, Sun has previously opened a public developer community site for soliciting feedback and providing updates about the process."

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  1. Re:Okay, but what does "open source" mean? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is this "open source" as in Apple's "public source" Darwin project, where they're basically going "you can see and compile all the code, but no way are you going to be redistributing this as any kind of commercial project"?

    You mean like the GPL?