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Sun Releases First GPLed Java Source

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the beginning-of-an-era dept.

An anonymous reader writes "You can now get GPLed JVM sources from Sun. Everyone seemed to be expecting the desktop version (J2SE) but J2ME has been released first. It looks to be buildable for Linux x86, MIPS, and ARM platforms. Sun now calls it 'phoneME.' Enjoy."

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  1. Too little - too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Marry Xmas all Java'ers

    1. Re:Too little - too late by jimstapleton · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      LOL, as if Linux doesn't already ship with non-OSS installed in many distros.

      I'm just glad of this because it means I probably won't have to jump through hoops to get Java working on my BSD machine anymore.

      And it makes me think of my favorite irony... GPL prohibits non OSS software to be bundled tightly with GPLed software, but Linux bundles such anyway.

      The BSD license says "We don't care as long plagiaries, or ask permission to not plagiaries", but FreeBSD will not put binary stuff in with their distros, and make you download it manually/separately, if it isn't OSS

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  2. Java died years ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dead languages belong in *BSD. Hey Sun, send your corpse of a language to mortuary@freebsd.org.

  3. Re:phoneME? Not Java? by jrumney · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The name is a trademark, and I suppose Sun want to keep it for compliant implementations, as has been the case since they started licensing Java to other companies for implementation. The problem is that a restriction that you cannot change the APIs to make them incompatible with other Java implementations would not be compatible with the GPL, so the only way around this for them is to change the name for what is released under the GPL.

  4. mod dowNN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    me if you'd like, *BSD has lost more do, aNd with any the project as a my calling. Now I