:ZDNet Australia: Sun Looks to GPL v3 for Java, Solaris
ZDNet Australia: Sun Looks to GPL v3 for Java, Solaris Feb 12, 2007, 16 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (6698 reads) (Other stories by Stephen Shankland)
"When it comes to open sourcing Solaris and Java, patents and politics are leading Sun toward a change of heart.
"The question is which open source licence should govern the building of projects out of the company's technology crown jewels. The open source Solaris project began with a Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL), and open source Java employs version 2 of the General Public License (GPL)..."