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Re: [News] Free Software Foundation Officially Welcomes Java to the Club

  • Subject: Re: [News] Free Software Foundation Officially Welcomes Java to the Club
  • From: Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:30:11 -0600
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <2254894.ZTkRogbbqy@schestowitz.com> <pv9234-pco.ln1@ellandroad.demon.co.uk> <reply_in_group-7AEB00.20071717112006@news.supernews.com>
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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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