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Re: Open Source Java 6 Developer Preview Release


On Nov 22, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Stefan Arentz wrote:

On Nov 20, 2007 8:14 AM, Landon Fuller <email@hidden> wrote: 
Howdy everyone,

I'm pleased to announce the first Developer Preview release of the
open-source port of Java 6 to Mac OS X (Intel).


Landon, I see people are referencing this (great!!!) effort as
'OpenJDK for OS X'. But that is not correct right? This is Java6 under
the Java Research License (?) and not OpenJDK, which is really a GPLd
Java7  implementation right?

Indeed. This is based on the BSD Java 6 port, which is licensed under the JRL. The BSDs develop Java under the JRL, and FreeBSD has negotiated a license with Sun to distribute Java(tm) binaries[1] based on these sources.
I am merging my work upstream into the BSD port, and in turn, it's the goal of the BSD project to merge their work into OpenJDK. I've signed a Sun Contributor Agreement in preparation for this, and an OpenJDK Porters group has been proposed:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.general/630

The licensing is complex -- GPLv2 [2] licensing on OpenJDK will make things much simpler.

-landonf

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/java/
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html -- note the classpath exception
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References: 
 >Update -- FreeBSD's 1.6 JDK on Mac OS X (From: Landon Fuller <email@hidden>)
 >Open Source Java 6 Developer Preview Release (From: Landon Fuller <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Open Source Java 6 Developer Preview Release (From: "Stefan Arentz" <email@hidden>)



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