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[Savannah-cvs] [JavaIssues] (edit) links to current Free Java status


From: Beuc
Subject: [Savannah-cvs] [JavaIssues] (edit) links to current Free Java status
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 08:04:18 +0000

??changed:
- Sun's JDK is not free (yet).
-
- Update: Sun progressively releases parts of the JDK as free software 
(http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html).
- JDK 1.7 should be free. Until then, the following still applies.
-
- That's why it is important to
- rely on a completely free java suite:
 Sun's current JDK (v1.6) is proprietary software, but is currently being fred 
(target v1.7), although a free release is not ready yet.

 * http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html : FSF news

 * http://openjdk.java.net/legal/binary-plugs-2007-05-08.html : the current 
version still requires non-free parts in non-trivial areas such as sound 
system, font rasterizer, graphics rasterizer, SNMP, crypto areas and build 
system.

 * http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=17 : GNU Classpath plans to create a completely 
free release by replacing the non-free parts.

 That's why it is important to, for now,
 rely on a completely free Java suite. A Java suite is made up of 3 parts:

??changed:
- This problem is very similar to the issue that occured a few years ago
- when the Qt library was non-free yet still used by free software project.
 (This problem is very similar to the issue that occured a few years ago
 when the Qt library was non-free yet still used by free software project.)

--removed:
- I can get the Sun JDK source code, isn't it free then?
-
-  Even if you can read its source code through the JCP, it is not free, 
because the source code's license does not permit free use.
-

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