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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 11:40 AM EDT |
By 2008 Sun were taking community contributions as extensions to the API? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: bugstomper on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 05:41 PM EDT |
Sun's implementations of the Java specifications are all based on
Free and Open Source code
The implementation of the Java
specifications would be the code of the Java Class Library in the JDK. I
interpret that statement as saying that OpenJDK was released under GPL.
The
date in the Internet Archive of that page is May 2008.
Wikipedia article
OpenJDK says
When initially released in May 2007, 4% of the
OpenJDK class library remained proprietary. By the appearance of OpenJDK 6 in
May 2008, less than 1% (the SNMP implementation, which is not part of the Java
specification) remained, making it possible to build OpenJDK without any binary
plugs.
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Authored by: webmink on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 05:27 PM EDT |
It means the development workflow was being switched so that the FOSS
implementation was the base and the proprietary version was derived, rather
than the other way round as it had been before. Sun owned all the copyright in
both the before and after cases.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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