Thursday August 09, 2007 OpenJDK has a JCK License
After many weeks of soul-searching, I'm delighted to say that the OpenJDK community has v1 of a license for use of the Java SE 6 JCK. I was going to blog all about it but I see Tom has given pointers to everything with hard facts, Rich has gone for the philosophy and context behind the thing and Dalibor has spoken wise words that I think I completely agree with.
So just some footnotes.
First, I think the license is a huge achievement. It gives OpenJDK and the communities around it very easy access to the JCK, far easier than I feared would be possible. We got rid of five whole pages of terms in the discussion process.
Second, despite this, I regret that it wasn't possible to meet all my own goals for it. In particular I would have liked the confidentiality terms to go too, and there are a few people who I know are disappointed by some things - sorry, let's keep working on it. Nonetheless, it hit all the goals I set for it in March.
Third I'd encourage people to engage positively and point out what's stopping them progressing - and then progress when we fix it!
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( Aug 09 2007, 07:55:33 PM PDT )
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links for 2007-08-09
- OpenProj | Projity
Ooh, this looks interesting. Open source project management Java app. And it's using the new Ad-ware license OSI approved, CPAL. No Mac awareness in it yet. - freedom ‘for users’- which users did you mean, exactly?
Luis Vila latches on to the same issue with defining "software freedom" that I tried to get at when I differentiated between "co-developers" and "deployer-developers" in the context of open source. - Govt. Looks for Leaker on Warrantless Wiretaps
"See, we need this warrantless wiretap law to help us stop people leaking details of our illegal activity" - Linux & Solaris booting together
Watch as Ubuntu and Solaris both boot in LDoms on the same T2000. - Something must be done
"Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton, reports ZDNet, was rather dismissive of OpenSolaris at LinuxWorld yesterday, inviting all to rally behind the cause of, er, monocultures."
Posted by webmink
( Aug 09 2007, 01:55:53 PM PDT )
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