Re: GPL Java

["Gustavo Franco" <stratus@debian.org>]

On 11/14/06, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> wrote:
> Okay, so Java's GPL'd now: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp
> (Also http://java.net/ )
>
> How soon will we see packages in main at long last? Granted, a buildable
> JDK isn't expected until Spring of next year...

Hi Gregory,

Short answer: It depends.

Btw, i would bet in a Sun GPL'd JDK to be released with Etch+1,
hopefully around the end of the next year or early 08'. It depends how
buildable it will be, the effort needed to package it and the number
of people motivated to work on that.

regards,
-- stratus