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While attending conferences virtually, as I did for this week's Red Hat Summit, let's me be in two places at once, it still doesn't easily support being in three places at once. Where I wasn't--even virtually--this week was at the Sun JavaOne Conference, which is increasingly becoming an open source software (OSS) community meetingplace. In fact, Sun's CEO claims JavaOne is now "the world's largest open source developer conference."

Since I wasn't there, I highly recommed Gavin Clark's coverage of the event, which you can find at Take Two. Also see Tony Baer's impressions of JavaOne here at ebizQ.

Sun's major OSS announcement was that it had delivered on its promise from last year's conference to make Java open source. It is signifcant that Java's Platform Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and Micro Edition are being distributed under the GNU General Public License version two (GPLv2). No commitment was mentioned vis a vis GPL v3 but it seems likely that they will embrace it. Otherwise, I think they would have stuck with their own previous open-source license, used for Open Solaris, and the sort-of open Java Community Process. Another hint: Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation thanked Sun in the press release.

Sun also announced that OpenJDK-based implementations can use the Java SE 6 Technical Compatibility Kit (JCK) to establish compatibility with the Java SE 6 specification.

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