On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:07:17 -0800, Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <pv9234-pco.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Well done Sun!
>
> There's been some controversy over this, though. IBM, for example, said:
>
> "In light of the Apache projects, we have discussed with Sun our
> strong belief that Sun should contribute their Java technologies to
> Apache rather than starting another open-source Java project, or at
> least make their contributions available under an 'Apache friendly'
> license to ensure the open-source Java community isn't fragmented
> and disenfranchised, instead Sun would be bringing the same benefits
> of OS (open-source) Java to this significant and growing open source
> community"
>
> (For those not familiar with the Java community, a very large number of
> major Java open source projects are run under the auspices of the Apache
> Foundation, and are released under the Apache License).
So IBM is saying that the GPL is hurting apache developers?
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