{"id":78,"date":"2006-11-13T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T12:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-11-13T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T12:42:20","slug":"sun-open-source-java-under-gpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/sun-open-source-java-under-gpl\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun open source Java under GPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best pieces of news in a long time.&nbsp; I quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-3513_22-6134584.html\">ZDNet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>After years of requests and debates, Sun Microsystems is ready to  release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, it plans to put the code for the programming software under the  version 2 of the General Public License (GPLv2), which governs Linux and many  other open-source products. The Sun-hosted <a href=\"http:\/\/dw.com.com\/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fjava.net%2F&amp;siteId=22&amp;oId=2100-3513-6134584&amp;ontId=3513&amp;lop=nl.ex\" target=\"_blank\">Java.net<\/a> Web site will provide access to Java Platform Micro  Edition (Java ME) software for mobile phones and Java Platform Standard Edition  (Java SE) software for desktop applications.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is good for everybody and in particularly the Linux community where distributions like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> is now free to re-distribute the Java platform.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Sun\" rel=\"tag\">Sun<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/java\" rel=\"tag\">java<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/open%20source\" rel=\"tag\">open source<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/gpl\" rel=\"tag\">gpl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best pieces of news in a long time.&nbsp; I quote from ZDNet: After years of requests and debates, Sun Microsystems is ready to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license. On Monday, it plans to put <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/sun-open-source-java-under-gpl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Sun open source Java under GPL<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-oss","category-software","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}