The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public License (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and GlassFish reference implementation (currently open-sourced under Sun's Common Development and Distribution License, or CDDL) to follow, several industry sources said.
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daniel replied ago:
I certainly hope that they either have a slightly derived version of GPL, or v3. I'm sure a lot of legal representatives for companies are going to start recomending staying away from Java due to the GPL "derivative work" clause.
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