Re: [flalug] Sun to license Java under GPL in 2007

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2006 - 16:15:53 EST


On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:23:33AM -0500, Jim Hartley wrote:
> It says they are using the GPL ... what's better than that?

How about something that won't later lead to large commercial entities
(in this case Sun) threatening small grassroots projects and individuals
with lawsuits for distributing binaries in violation of the license
simply because they made the mistake of not maintaining long-term
persistent archives of source code, sometimes at great expense?

relevant link:
  http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=70

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