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Sun Drops Hints On Java Open Source Licence
News Sun has pledged to release open source Java components by the end of the year, with the aim of completing the move by 2007, but so far has remained mum about which licence it would use. However, use of CDDL is not a surprise: Sun has lobbied hard...
[October 27, 2006, 9:10]
Sun Lays An Open Source Licence To Rest
News Sun prefers a different open source licence, the Community Development and Distribution License, which is a variant of the Mozilla Public License. Sun is recommending that nobody use an open-source licence it created, a small step in a broader push...
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
Sun Revokes FreeBSD's Java Licence
News The newsletter, 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 code. The open source FreeBSD project has had its licence to view the Java...
[January 7, 2005, 15:40]
Sun's Open Source Licence Wins Final OSI Approval
News In December, Sun submitted its Community Development and Distribution License, or CDDL, for approval by the Open Source Initiative, the nonprofit group that decides whether software licence agreements meet the terms of its Open Source Definition.
[January 19, 2005, 15:10]
Sun Looks To GPL V3 For Java, Solaris
News I don't think we've been as effective as I'd like to be in going after the GPL community, because there's an awful lot of really bright people who think that's the licence they prefer. The question is which open source licence should govern the...
[February 9, 2007, 15:22]
Sun Lets Jini Out Of The Proprietary Bottle
News Sun on Wednesday released its latest Jini development toolkit under the Apache open source licence. A popular previous edition of the Jini Starter Kit, version 1.2, will also be made available under the open source licence.
[October 20, 2005, 13:45]
MySQL Backtracks On Closed-source Plan
News Sun has backtracked on previous plans to release important backup features for its MySQL database under a proprietary licence, following widespread criticism from the open-source community. In effect, MySQL has changed its plans for forthcoming...
[May 8, 2008, 15:17]
The Catch In 'free' Solaris 8
News It also was stung by criticism from open-source advocates that Sun was attempting to pass off SCSL as the equivalent of GPL, the Gnu Public Licence. Binary licensors also get a free development licence of Oracle's 8I, iPlanet software and a free...
[January 27, 2000, 8:15]
Sun Loses Open Source Leader
News Cooper joined Sun when it had just begun releasing its Java software under the Sun Community Source licence (SCSL). Since then, Sun has tried numerous ways to release software, including more liberal Java licenses, the fully open source OpenOffice...
[March 21, 2005, 8:15]
Sun Criticised For MySQL Enterprise Shift
News The type of licence that will cover these add-ons hasn't yet been determined, Mickos said; it could be the GPL, another open-source licence or a proprietary licence, or the add-ons could be dual-licensed, as is the case with other MySQL components.
[April 17, 2008, 16:19]
Sun Hands Cobalt An Open-source Lifeline
News The Cobalt community was handed a lifeline on Christmas Eve when Sun Microsystems released the Cobalt code under an open-source licence. The release means that all the custom user interface and back-end code for the Qube 3 and RaQ 550 server...
[January 2, 2004, 10:55]
Sun Pioneer An Open-source Killjoy?
News Joy, a Sun co-founder and the principal designer of the Berkeley version of Unix, called BSD, said he preferred BSD's licence or, better, the Sun Community Source License (SCSL) to Linux's. Microsoft has been a vocal critic of some open-source...
[August 15, 2002, 7:47]
GlassFish Gives Developers A Glimpse Of Java
News For years, Sun offered Java source code under the Sun Community Source License, or SCSL, a licence that has separate provisions to accommodate research use, internal use and commercial sales. Sun would be better off putting Java under a real open...
[June 21, 2005, 16:10]
Apache To Brew Its Own Pot Of Java
News The company has not made its own J2SE software available with an open source licence because of legal considerations and concerns with Java compatibility. The submitters plan to create a Java virtual machine, related libraries and testing software...
[May 10, 2005, 8:30]
Sun May Choose GPL For Solaris
News Green also said he wasn't averse to changing Solaris' licence and that outsiders responded warmly to Sun's decision to use GPL for Java. Choosing the GPL also could help explain remarks by Schwartz in October that Sun was "likely" to use the same...
[November 15, 2006, 9:21]
Microsoft To Boost Windows CE Linux-style?
News Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems found this out the hard way when it initially attempted to equate its Sun Community Source Licence with the GNU public licence. For now, according to developers, Microsoft isn't contemplating going so far as to turn...
[March 16, 2000, 9:01]
Sun Plans Open Source Java Component Release
News Sun hasn't yet determined what licence or licences to use for open source Java. Microsoft, after an ugly legal spat over its Java licence, released a Java analogue of its own: the C# programming language and .Net environment for running C# programs.
[August 15, 2006, 9:35]
New Java Licence Aims To Spark Innovation
News In an interview last week, Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of Sun's software group, said the research licence would "enable open-source development for research activities", but the similarities to the free-wheeling open-source...
[June 11, 2003, 7:39]
Sun Ready For War Over IP Litigation
News McNealy also defended the Java Community Process (JCP) and its "stewardship" of Java rather than a fully free or open-source licence such as the GNU General Public License (GPL). The case went to court in the US, and Sun agreed to licence the...
[November 17, 2004, 11:30]
Solaris Source Code Schedule Slips
News We'll have an Open Source Initiative-approved licence, just like Red Hat. Schwartz said Sun hasn't ruled out releasing Solaris under the General Public License (GPL), the licence that governs Linux. Sun will sell Solaris under a variety of pricing...
[November 5, 2004, 8:03]
