Sun’s choice of the GPL, and RMS in the webcast

Two positive aspects of choosing the GPL for Sun’s Java are that it is a copyleft licence, and that it means Sun’s project will be able to share code with the GNU Compiler for Java and GNU Classpath. Sun have released under version 2 of the GPL, but have said that they will consider version Read more »

RMS, recently, on if SUN free Java

In a November 1st interview, Richard Stallman was asked for his thoughts on if Sun free Java (as they have done today). Below is a transcript of that section of the interview. The whole interview his at the following URL: http://mirror.linuxquestions.org/pub/archive/tllts/tllts_165-11-01-06.mp3 [50:35] Interviewer: the last time we spoke, you mentioned two projects that you were Read more »