Sun Completes Java Core Tech Open-Sourcing

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 8, 2007 @04:07AM from the the-beans-are-gratis dept.

MsManhattan writes "A year after announcing its plans, Sun Microsystems has made almost all of the core technology in Java available as open-source software under the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2). However, some of the code remains 'encumbered'; that is, Sun doesn't have sufficient rights to release it under GPLv2, and the company is requesting the open-source community's help in resolving these issues. Rich Sands, community marketing manager for OpenJDK community at Sun, would not say what percentage of Java's 6.5 million lines of code are encumbered, but explained that it is largely Java 2D graphics technology, such as font and graphics rasterizing."

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Re:SUN and GPL by zero_offset · 2007-05-08 05:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It's not just a spec, but the best implementation available now that Microsoft has stopped writing JVMs.

Fixed.

(Been awhile since we had a Karma fire.)

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