In an unexpected move, vendor decides to license open source Java under the GPL. First batch of source codes are also released.

With Java, the how is not so simple. Sun, I believe, has the IP rights it needs to open source Java. It's the compatibility problem that's the major thorn (as O'Grady and others often allude to).

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past.

The debate inside Sun over whether to take Java open source is coming to a head as the JavaOne conference looms May 15. One of new Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz's first chores will be to ...

Sun Microsystems finally answered long-running calls for the vendor to open-source Java, announcing last week that it will do so once it works out the logistics.

SAP apparently doesn't understand the irony of a proprietary software company demanding that complements like Java be open.

Sun's executive vice president of software, Richard Green, reiterated the company's intentions to open source Java at the JavaOne conference yesterday in San Francisco. Green claims that, although ...

Advocates have plenty of reasons to champion an open Java; several, including IBM and Eric Raymond, an open-source luminary, called on Sun earlier this year to open Java.

Ten years on, Java founder James Gosling sees upside in the open source move, while others believe Sun didn't go far enough Ten years later, the open-sourcing of Java remains a point of contention ...

Yes, the source code for Java has been available for years via the SCSL and JRL license programs, but a true open source release would make it possible for developers to innovate more freely with ...

Author, professor charges Oracle has twisted open development process to its own ends. A developer Java gurus call a Java Guru has resigned from Java’s governing body because, he said in a ...

Microsoft announced this morning that it was acquiring jClarity, a service designed to tune the performance of Java applications. It will be doing that on ...