JavaOne: More Open Source from Sun?
Steve
Gillmor: You're trying to come up with a unifying solution
across this rather confusing array of alternatives …
Jonathan Schwartz: But it may not be unified, Steve. We use the GPL for OpenOffice, but GPL may not be the right answer for Java. The Apache license may be more akin to what we want for Java.
All I want to do is suggest that, as we move forward in our business, we're cognizant that there is a very substantial community of developers who prefer having access to the source code. We may in fact not simply limit ourselves to Solaris and Java; we may look more broadly at what else we can open-source (emphasis added).
Jonathan Schwartz: But it may not be unified, Steve. We use the GPL for OpenOffice, but GPL may not be the right answer for Java. The Apache license may be more akin to what we want for Java.
All I want to do is suggest that, as we move forward in our business, we're cognizant that there is a very substantial community of developers who prefer having access to the source code. We may in fact not simply limit ourselves to Solaris and Java; we may look more broadly at what else we can open-source (emphasis added).
Humm. I wonder what's next?
Posted by Anonymous on June 29, 2004 at 02:09 PM JST #