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The catch in 'free' Solaris 8

...linking the new Solaris 8 licencing terms to Sun's maligned Sun Community Source License (SCSL). Sun had been working for more than a year... Read more

27 January, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

Sun (almost) opens Solaris

...Inc. plans to put all its platform software -including Solaris- under a Community Source License, the company said this week. The license is likely to... Read more

26 February, 1999 by ZDNet

Microsoft layoffs force product cutbacks

...the .Net Micro Framework, Microsoft said it will make the project a community source effort. "Microsoft will continue to support existing customers according to any... Read more

7 May, 2009 by Ina Fried
Symbian's research chief on going open source

Symbian's research chief on going open source

...companies to share the code only within the Foundation. It's a community source licence, with as much as possible in common with the eventual... Read more

23 October, 2008 by David Meyer

GlassFish gives developers a glimpse of Java

Builder: Sun are still not making Java open source, and have been heavily criticised for their latest alternative effort to open up Java code Read more

21 June, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Sun loses open source leader

...when it had just begun releasing its Java software under the Sun Community Source licence (SCSL). That effort, which granted only some of the freedoms... Read more

21 March, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Sun's open source licence wins final OSI approval

...Sun Industry Standards Source License, the Sun Public License and the Sun Community Source License. Sun has deep open source roots, however. For example, for... Read more

19 January, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Sun revokes FreeBSD's Java licence

...published two weeks ago, said Sun had terminated the FreeBSD's Sun Community Source License (SCSL), the licence which controls access to the Java source... Read more

7 January, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Sun pioneer an open-source killjoy?

...called BSD, said he preferred BSD's licence or, better, the Sun Community Source License (SCSL) to Linux's. Those licences are more amenable to... Read more

15 August, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

RealNetworks: Baby steps toward freedom

...and encoder engine -- sans the actual codecs -- will become available under a community-source licence. This means that source code will be disclosed to people... Read more

30 July, 2002 by Bruce Perens

Know your rights (regarding open source software)

...alignment with the newer open source movement than in opposition to it. Community Source Sun Microsystems' community source licensing program was launched to give Sun... Read more

22 September, 2000 by Michael Barr

Microsoft to boost Windows CE Linux-style?

...out the hard way when it initially attempted to equate its Sun Community Source Licence with the GNU public licence. Microsoft is considering the move... Read more

16 March, 2000 by John Spooner and Mary Jo Foley

Sun backs down on Blackdown

...which, despite what some think, is perfectly legal and aboveboard. The Sun Community Source License makes it clear that Sun is in the right in... Read more

10 December, 1999 by Steven J.Vaughan Nichols

A Year Ago: Sun announces Java 2, opens source

...the de facto business software controls", said Zander. Sun also announced its Community Source License program, whereby the source code for all of Sun's... Read more

8 December, 1999 by Rupert Goodwins

Comdex '99: McNealy - A future without Microsoft

Services, not software, will be the way of the future, said McNealy, who called for a breakup of Sun archrival if it fails to comply with remedies to restrain its monopoly Read more

18 November, 1999 by Deborah Gage and Rob Lemos

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