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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. And if you want to play with it now... MIDPath by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Looks like this was released back in November with the full Java GPL announcement according to the official announcement.

    And people already started hacking it and combining it with all kinds of interesting existing free java projects to product MIDPath

    Seems the GNU Classpath, Kaffe, GCJ, etc projects really want to Collaborate and work together with Sun according to their latest release notes. 2007 might be a pretty interesting year for Java and GNU/Linux (and mobile devices!)

  2. Congratulations to Sun and Thank You. by dwalsh · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Congratulations to the Sun people who have made this a reality.

    They are freeing up the crown jewels, and the significance of that fact should not be underestimated. Free as in 'gratis' and free as in 'libre'.

    I am not a Sun employee, but I am a Java dev., and I would like to remind people of Sun's contributions to open source over the years. While the press communications of executives have muddied the waters, Sun have done more in the past for open source than a certain "Think Free" company. That company pressed for open sourcing Java and then bitched about the choice of the GPL.

    I would love to see the source to Websphere (not the Geronimo 'Websphere' product, but the real deal).

    ... for laughs if nothing else.

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