Sun Microsystems, Sun to ease Java licencing restrictions

Manufacturing News, Source : TheManufacturer.com
Published : 04 Apr 2002 9:46
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Sun Microsystems has said it will ease Java licencing restrictions to make it easier for open-source developers to write and share code.

Sun hopes this will promote Java-based applications. Under an open-source philosophy, a community of grass-roots developers would build applications, in this case with Java, and make them freely available over the internet. The source code is then exposed so that other developers could participate in ongoing development.

The best-known products developed from this movement were the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server. Part of the Java Community Process (JCP) organisation, a Sun group that lets companies participate in the creation of the Java platform, want Sun to revise the Java Specification Participation Agreement that governs the JCP.

Specifically, it wants the right to freely implement specifications in open source; the right for specification leads to release reference implementations and test kits in open source; the right for specifications to be created more publicly; and the right to free access to test kits by open-source, non-profit, and academic groups.

 

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