Cocktail "Free Java"

    Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems open source project director, promised Monday that absolutely all parts of Java will be released under the GPL by the end of the year. For this, the company will have to rewrite the part of the code that is responsible for working with sound. The rights to it in the OpenJDK distribution today are owned by an unnamed company that does not want to distribute its creation under the open source license.

    Since May of last year, when OpenJDK came out, Sun has already managed to negotiate with another partner - the company Codec, who wrote modules for working with raster graphics for Java.

    Another important milestone was reached this week on the road to Java: the OpenJDK implementation included with Fedora 9 passed all Sun tests and is now fully compatible with Java SE 6. This was the result of a Red Hat project called IcedTea. In the future, this implementation will also be part of Enterprise Linux corporate distributions from an American company.

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