[Foss-cafe] Sun Sticks 'Proprietary' Label on Red Hat Linux

[Pupeno]

On Wednesday April 28 2004 00:50, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1573433,00.asp?kc=ewnws042704dtx1k0000
>599
>
> Nice to hear someone say this.
>
> But, the question is. will Sun start providing their own totally
> non-proprietary Linux distro?  Please.

"""After observing that open-sourcing Java under the GNU General Public 
License (GPL) "is not off the table," he added that one problem Sun has with 
the GPL is that it encourages forking."""

I think that releasing Java under GPL would be a very, very good thing for 
lots of people, including Sun. It'll make me re-think about using Java, 
something that's totally out of my scope right now, due to liscenses, and I 
think it's the same for a lot of other developers (am I wrong ?). And I don't 
think that will make people make forks... After all, Qt is GPL and have you 
seen any (succesfull) fork arround ? I think that for TrollTech, GPLizing Qt 
was a good thing and the same dual liscense scheme can be used by Sun for 
Java.
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