[gentoo-java] Java Open Source - was: Re: Sun JDK fetching

[David Herron <David.Herron@Sun.COM>]

Greg, thank you for your reply.

We have said through several people at several times, for Java we  
will be using an OSI-approved license.  I haven't heard that a  
license choice has been made.  But the team is, so far as I've seen,  
very intent on adopting a proper open source attitude and project set- 
up.  Not that it will be that way out of the gate ... we have a long  
history behind us with institutional wisdom surrounding the processes  
we've been following.  I don't think you can just throw a big switch  
and instantly make everything open-source-purist.  FWIW, what will be  
released "soon" is the VM (or was it just HotSpot?), javac and  
javahelp.  Other pieces will be coming later on.

An example is the Open Solaris process which took 5 yrs before they  
were able to even launch the beginning of the open source project,  
and then it was several months beyond that of getting pieces in  
place, governance settled, etc.

I sincerely hope we do this properly as well.

If you guys have any thoughts, desires, advice, etc about how we're  
doing this let me know.

- David Herron

On Sep 9, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Greg Tassone wrote:

> Great response... thanks for taking the time -- I was about to do so
> myself.
...
>
> Here's to the future.  I hope Sun walks openly and properly into this
> new era (chooses a good OSI license, etc.) within the next month or  
> two.
> If so, IMHO, Java will become a dominating force across the Open  
> Source
> world as it has in other walks of life.
>
> ~ Greg
>

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