Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested
Hi,
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:40 +0000, Mr. Demeanour wrote:
> > See planet.classpath.org . Many of us are really happy about it, and
> > have begun playing around with Sun's code. I believe the fun hack for
> > today is making cacao work with Sun's ME libraries, there have been a
> > few such things in the past days.
>
> Hmmm - rumours of happy martyrdom for the CLASSPATH project. I rather
> hope that's not the way things turn out. Cross-fertilisation would seem
> to be a more helpful outcome, to my mind.
Give it a bit more time for everybody to to digest all the fun
announcements. I am sure there will be some really great cooperation and
cross-fertilisation in the future. Some GNU Classpath hackers have
already been spotted on the Sun OpenJDK mailinglists asking how they can
help out with librating the rest of the code (the Sun core class
libraries have some encumbered parts that Sun is not allowed by their
partners to release under the GPL and GNU Classpath might be able to
plug in the holes). And from the patches on the classpath list it also
seems GNU Classpath hackers are already concentrating some of their
efforts on those parts where the free software projects are already
ahead, hoping that means that more good code will make it into a larger
free java universe in the future.
Cheers,
Mark
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