tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23105477.post7344783178917727863..comments2009-01-07T01:54:13.483-05:00HUWebDevnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23105477.post-35192647098674238032006-12-04T15:19:31.597-05:002006-12-04T15:19:31.597-05:00

I hope you don't think that I was trivializing what Sun has accomplished; nothing could be further from the truth. And you're right; examining the code from a legal perspective with a codebase as huge as Java is certainly an enormous undertaking.<br /><br />I have no doubts that Jonathan Schwartz didn't wake up one morning and say, "I know! Why don't we open source Java? I'll call in and see if

HUWebDevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04222422833791224335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23105477.post-37803261069044573292006-12-01T04:26:17.865-05:002006-12-01T04:26:17.865-05:00

As someone at Sun who did some work on the open-sourcing of Java, I can tell you it was not a trivial effort, and takes a large amount of time from engineers and other parts of the company, not least marketing and legal. <br />Releasing something under the GPL indeed requires more work, not less, than customising a license to suit your own needs. For example, you need to verfify that the code

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