The Goldfish Chronicles

The argument about a permissive rather than copyleft Java continues to go on. The latest is that Geir has proposed a license for allowing permissive Java (or rather any OSI license) - http://people.apache.org/~geirm/PROPOSAL-NFP-OSI-JCK-20080623.pdf based on the existing license for the copyleft version (OpenJDK/IcedTea).

Geir talks about it here: http://markmail.org/message/a2lywh7g22rp5eeh.

End of the day, Sun think the future of Open Source is the GPL-as-a-defense model and not the being open model.

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