Sun to Fully Open Source Java

Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf brings news that Sun Microsystems will be removing the last restrictions on Java to make it completely open source. Sun wants Java to be easily available for use in Linux distributions. We've discussed the steps Sun has taken to open-source Java over the past couple years. From Yahoo! News: "'We've been engaging with the open-source community for Java to finish off the OpenJDK project, and the specific thing that we've been working on with them is clearing the last bits that we didn't have the rights,' to distribute, Sands said. 'Over the past year, we have pretty much removed most of those encumbrances.' Work still needs to be done to offer the Java sound engine and SNMP code via open source; that effort is expected to be completed this year. Developers, though, may be able to proceed without a component like the sound engine, Sands said.

Comments

Re:This is good news...

[Anonymous Coward]

oh, p.s. "Dionysius" is a name given to people named after the god Dionysus/Dionysos.

Re:Better late than early

[zsau]

OT, but just to let you know, the word "till" is spelt like that, not "'til"; it's not a contraction. The word "until" in fact is derived from the word "till" with the prefix "un-" (obviously not using its English meaning of "not", but an old Norse meaning that was similar).