"We're trying to simplify, as best we can, all the legalistics," Sun Fellow Graham Hamilton told the press yesterday - meaning the 'legalistics' involved in Java application development.
Sun's "Project Peabody" - a codename that no one has yet explained - involves the introduction, in approximately a month's time, of a new license called JIUL, standing for Java Internal Use License; and another called JDL, for Java Distribution License.
JIUL will supersede the SCSL (Sun Community Source License), Hamilton said.
Hamilton, a Sun VP and Fellow in the Java platform team who was the lead architect for J2SE releases 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5, added that Sun's main goal is to "increase the transparency of [its] licensing" with the JCP and the development community at large.
Sun has also created the JRL (Java Research Licence) - a new license created specifically for universities and researchers who want to use Java technologies as subject matter for learning and research. The JRL is intended for all Java platforms, profiles, and standard extensions currently covered under Java SCSL licenses (e.g. J2SE, J2EE, and J2ME).
"It was written to simplify and relax the terms of the existing 'research' section of the current SCSL," says Sun at its website, adding:
"This license is designed for the research community. This includes schools and universities as well as companies that are interested in investigating new products and services using Java technologies. This research license is only for initial research and development projects, and can be used for java.net projects among peers who have agreed to its terms. If you decide to use your project internally for a productive use, and/or distribute your product to others, you must sign a commercial agreement and meet the Java compatibility requirements."
The JRL is not, Sun stresses, a commercial license. It is only for initial research and development projects. If you decide to use your project internally for a productive use, and/or distribute your product to others, you must sign a commercial agreement and meet the Java compatibility requirements. Developers can send questions related to the JRL to JRLFeedback@sun.com, and/or post comments on the java-net project forum.
The three new Java licenses interest, but do not overly impress, Burton Group VP and Research Director Anne Thomas Manes, moderator of the "App Server Shoot-Out" Keynote Panel at this year's Web Services Edge 2005 in Boston which can still be viewed on SYS-CON.TV (http://sys-con.tv) in its entirety.
"Sun should have open-sourced Java five years ago," she told a reporter.
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MoreIsSometimesLess
wrote: Java Research
Licence, Java
Distribution License,
Java Internal Use
License...smoke and
mirrors or the real
thing? How long are they,
where can we find them to
check them out, and when?
polese wrote: Java + OSS
commented on 18 March
2005:
Kim Polese, now CEO of
SpikeSource, has written
(http://www.sys-con.com/s
tory/?storyid=48533&DE=1)
: Java's success derives
from principles that are
central to the growth of
open source software
Thanks for that link.
infoPoint wrote: Sun
spent $863 million on
research and development
through the first half of
its 2005 fiscal year and
McNealy said the
company's investments
were "paying off with
heightened interest from
existing customers and
attention from new
customers." (Feb. 2,
2005)
skEptiker wrote: }}} Kim
Polese: Java's success
derives from principles
that are central to the
growth of open source
software {{{
Maybe so, but do these 3
new more-open-but-not-qui
te-open licenses adhere
to those same principles,
or merely muddy the
waters?
Java + OSS wrote: Kim
Polese, now CEO of
SpikeSource, has written
(http://www.sys-con.com/s
tory/?storyid=48533&DE=1)
: Java's success derives
from principles that are
central to the growth of
open source software
hsmith wrote: 1.6
"mustang" will be named
java 6.0, for whatever
reason.
i just assume they will
never go to 2.x, but
continue on with 1.x up
until forever.
the whole "java 2.0",
"java 5.0" is stupid to
begin with.
IBM announced two new
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ParAccel announced it has
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Under the terms of the
agreement, ParAccel will
embed IBM InfoSphere
Change Data Capture
within the ParAccel
Analytic Database,
providing ParAccel
customers with seamless
and real-time u
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