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Greg, thank you for your reply. |
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We have said through several people at several times, for Java we |
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will be using an OSI-approved license. I haven't heard that a |
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license choice has been made. But the team is, so far as I've seen, |
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very intent on adopting a proper open source attitude and project set- |
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up. Not that it will be that way out of the gate ... we have a long |
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history behind us with institutional wisdom surrounding the processes |
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we've been following. I don't think you can just throw a big switch |
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and instantly make everything open-source-purist. FWIW, what will be |
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released "soon" is the VM (or was it just HotSpot?), javac and |
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javahelp. Other pieces will be coming later on. |
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An example is the Open Solaris process which took 5 yrs before they |
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were able to even launch the beginning of the open source project, |
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and then it was several months beyond that of getting pieces in |
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place, governance settled, etc. |
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I sincerely hope we do this properly as well. |
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If you guys have any thoughts, desires, advice, etc about how we're |
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doing this let me know. |
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- David Herron |
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On Sep 9, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Greg Tassone wrote: |
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> Great response... thanks for taking the time -- I was about to do so |
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> myself. |
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... |
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> Here's to the future. I hope Sun walks openly and properly into this |
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> new era (chooses a good OSI license, etc.) within the next month or |
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> two. |
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> If so, IMHO, Java will become a dominating force across the Open |
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> Source |
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> world as it has in other walks of life. |
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> ~ Greg |
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