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the other way 'round
think wht was ment was just the opposite.

Different open source licenses exist. GPL specifics is that what you add to the program is not yours anymore. if you make a smallimprovement to it, that small part of it is no more your own, but is the community's.

It's true however that in the opriginal message is a confusion b/w the runtime engine, which is under GPL, and the langage that do not impose licensing restriction. Just like any other GPL language compiler/runtime library, sun proposal will offer a provision to the GPL license to allow packaging with the runtime engine w/o having to release under GPL.

the real point however is that it wont be possible to package a modified JVM with BSD compliant software because of GPL
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GPL FTW  galileon | 11/13/06
Great move by Sun  Richard Flude | 11/13/06
GPL too restictive like a magnet  Gridmaster | 11/13/06
you mean  galileon | 11/13/06
the other way 'round  s_souche | 11/13/06
aim for the armour *****...  John Le'Brecage | 11/13/06
GPL / BSD and java  s_souche | 11/13/06
Reading transparently...  John Le'Brecage | 11/13/06
restrictions on integrability of JVMs  s_souche | 11/13/06
Okay, gotcha...  John Le'Brecage | 11/13/06
Java Plug-In  Yagotta B. Kidding | 11/13/06
Sufficiently imaginative on Monday, though.  Anton Philidor | 11/13/06
Wrong wrong wrong!  Free_Thinker | 11/13/06
Important to Note  wjkahlssmd@... | 11/13/06
You read the article, right?  CobraA1 | 11/13/06
Backup your claims!  shadowtaker | 11/13/06
Congratulations to Sun  BanjoPaterson | 11/13/06
re: Congratulations to Sun  Arm A. Geddon | 11/13/06
GPL rules  Linux Geek | 11/13/06
Smart Move Sun  Tim Patterson | 11/13/06
Smart Move MS/Novell  NonZealot | 11/13/06
I laugh when I say...  John Le'Brecage | 11/13/06
don't you mean Microvell?  Arm A. Geddon | 11/13/06
not Microvell but No$oft  LLLActive | 11/13/06
maybe I should have said...  Arm A. Geddon | 11/13/06
Smart Move MS/Novell, no way...  Jxn | 11/14/06
Sun Loses Control?  wolf_z | 11/13/06
Java is irrelevent  NonZealot | 11/13/06
Java made relevant  Free_Thinker | 11/13/06
All the Linux users?  NonZealot | 11/13/06
Misunderstood  Free_Thinker | 11/13/06
Java becomes relevant again  petteyg359 | 11/13/06
Java could have been, but wasnt  Dave_Friedel | 11/13/06
Tell that...  jasonp@... | 11/13/06
To add to that...  zkiwi | 11/13/06
Risky but Good Business  bcroner | 11/13/06
re: Java is irrelevent  blaze1024 | 11/13/06
Sun keeps control  Free_Thinker | 11/13/06
Nope Java becomes a Sun GPL Project  maldain | 11/13/06
microsoft release sourcecode?  brokndodge@... | 11/14/06
Microsoft knows better?  Jxn | 11/14/06
Control isn't most important.  jolumoar | 11/14/06
Rep and I are cracking up...  Mike Cox | 11/13/06
Are you really that mean-spirited?  kentfx_z | 11/13/06
All Mike Cox posts are jokes...  John Le'Brecage | 11/13/06
Dang it John!  Yagotta B. Kidding | 11/13/06
And there go all the fish - sigh...  luke_sg | 11/13/06
not to worry...  justchange@... | 11/13/06
I still think  zkiwi | 11/13/06
The good, the bad & the ugly.  Logics | 11/13/06
At IBM executives are smiling grimly.  Anton Philidor | 11/13/06
And annoyingly  John Le'Brecage | 11/13/06
Sun's latest quarter, $56 million loss GAAP  Anton Philidor | 11/13/06
A handleless pump outside a pub...  Anton Philidor | 11/13/06
Wrong?  John Le'Brecage | 11/13/06
Extending credit.  Anton Philidor | 11/13/06
Not to belabour the point  John Le'Brecage | 11/13/06
I'm outraged at your bad faith rant against GPL  Linux Geek | 11/13/06
"... vile comments about GPL ..."?  Anton Philidor | 11/13/06
you are so misleading  Linux Geek | 11/13/06
Well, I did oversimplify.  Anton Philidor | 11/13/06
Microsoft != Honest  pj_mouse | 11/13/06
i thought sun was a strong company  brokndodge@... | 11/14/06
What License Cover Java Kracking?  wiskyjon | 11/13/06
it's not java, it's windows  brokndodge@... | 11/14/06
Open Sourcing Java  Peter Komisar | 11/13/06
LCD display on an ATM machine?  Resuna | 11/13/06
Welcome to the software graveyard  TonyMcS | 11/13/06
Too Late  charlescandy | 11/13/06
I don't think that this will have any impact on Java  balsover | 11/13/06
GPL vrs Apache vrs Artistic  jmusto@... | 11/13/06
your code is your  brokndodge@... | 11/14/06

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