Sun to open source Java?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Andy">

> hmm, sounder mistake again, this was meant to go to the list, sorry Robin
> 
> I see the JDK is being open sourced, does this include the Runtime?

Yes.

> The FAQ suggests that it excludes Classpath, does this mean it isn't
> completely open source?

It's GPLv2 with a more permissive exception:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html

- Jeff

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