This would be a great victory of the Free software. It would be a nice experience to work with Sun's code after it becomes part of the Free world. If Sun would prefer not to accept the external donations, the community driven GPL-only branch is likely to emerge anyway as the license permits. See, Dalibor is already talking about this. On the Sun's bug database, there are enough bugs to earn the permanent fame for all Classpath developers, if we start work on fixing them in the GPL version of the Sun's code. Our team has an experience of implementing the same thing completely independently - could help a lot. Also, I think, GNU Classpath is written well enough to think about merging rather than about the direct replacement of our classes by that Sun has released. Again, this seems for me unlikely to happen, but I see some things happen even if I think they are not likely. Audrius