"The other day I attended a briefing with Simon Phipps, Sun's
Chief Open Source Officer which was ostensibly aimed at updating
the assembled on Sun's progress in its open-sourcing of Java.
"The 'big news' was that Sun now plans to bring its reference
implementations of the mobile 'editions' of Java (JME CDC and CLDC)
to market under open-source licenses. It also has a bit more
clarity on the timescale for its open-sourcing of Java Standard
Edition: code will start being released under the new license
regime before the end of the calendar year. And in addition, it's
created a portal to serve the interests of potential Java
committers..."
