Sun Microsystems and Java Open Source Software

Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green

November 13, 2006

Sun Microsystems today announced it is releasing its implementations of Java technology as free software under the GNU General Public License version two. Available today are the first pieces of source code for Sun's implementation of Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) and a buildable implementation of Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME). In addition, Sun is adding the GPLv2 license to Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE).

Videos

Developers and Java  [YouTube]
Jonathan Schwartz and the Network Effect  [YouTube]
Rich Green and Open Source Software  [YouTube]
Rich Green and Open Source License  [YouTube]
Rich Green and Java Implementations  [YouTube]
Rich Green and Java Community Process  [YouTube]

Java Open Source Software Q&A  [YouTube]
Java Open Source Software Q&A  [YouTube]

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