From the Weather Balloons dept.:
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.

...Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has publicly toyed with the idea of GPL'ing Java. "We're now making serious progress on open-sourcing Java (and despite the cynics, using a GPL license is very much *on* the table)," Schwartz wrote in his blog in May.

Earlier, he mused on the merits of adding a GPL license to the mix for Solaris. "We're looking at how to reach developers and customers who prefer the GPL," he wrote.

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