"Sun Says GPL Is a Possibility for OSS Java"

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On Jun 1, 2006, at 9:29 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:49:36PM +0000, theUser BL wrote:
>>> At OSNews.com at
>>> http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14770
>>> stand, that a GPL Java could be possible.
>>
>> I have now seen, that the links ends up in Suns blog at
>> http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan
>>
>> There he writes:
>> "But all in all, a really great week - we're now making serious  
>> progress on
>> open sourcing Java (and despite the cynics, using a GPL license is  
>> very
>> much *on* the table), [...]"
>>
>
> I can't parse that sentence. Is Schwartz leading a tough fight against
> evil cynics inside Sun to get the GPL considered?
>

And in the next sentence he talks about compatibility, which politely  
seems to be mentioning Sun's fear of forks yet again, which they will  
probably never drop.
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