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ZDNet Australia: Sun Looks to GPL v3 for Java, Solaris

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Stephen Shankland
Feb 12, 2007

“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)…”


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