2nd quarter of 2007 and no GPL code of Java from Sun.

Dalibor Topic robilad@kaffe.org
Thu May 3 09:21:00 GMT 2007


J.C. Pizarro wrote:
> Today is 01 of May, the worker's day.
>> I've not the code in May, Fernando.
>> How long have i to wait? Andrew.

To put things in a bit of context, re-licensing the mozilla code base to 
the tri-license it has now took about 4.5 years.
Sun is trying hard to get their re-licensing effort done in about a year.
I'd expect Sun's task to be non-trivial, and to involve a lot of time 
spent with lawyers, and those lawyery things have a tendency to take a 
bit longer than initially expected, as one can see with the GPLv3 
drafting process. Do not despair, though, as there is a lot of fun 
things left to do working on gcj or GNU Classpath meanwhile, as a quick 
glimpse into the bug database shows.
cheers,
dalibor topic


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