Today, Sun hit the market with long awaited news. The Java platform is now released open source and under GPL lisence. According to a statement (in Finnish) by Sun representative the contribution consists of approximately 7 million lines of source code. This is one of the biggest donations ever made by a commercial company to the open source community. The initial release includes the source code of Java Standard Edition (SE) and Micro Edition (ME). Sun has further promised to continue opening the source code. Read more from the company’s website.
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