11.14.07

GPLv3 is Good Enough for Sun Microsystems

Posted in GNU/Linux, UNIX, Videos, GPL, SUN, Virtualization, FOSS, Kernel, Dell at 11:48 pm by Roy Schestowitz

Sun is not ‘hippie’, is it?

There are two worthwhile events worth mentioning. The first is the one-year anniversary of Java as a (en route) GPL-licensed project. Here is a nice short video (among a series) which touches on that.

Here is an article from the Register.

A year ago this week Sun finally bowed to pressure and agreed to make Java a free, open source project. It was an odd move given Sun’s strong resistance to making Java open source for a more than a decade.

In the past few days (or months) we also found the following news:

All the stories above go beyond the scope of this Web site, so they won’t be discussed further. The big news today is Dell’s OEMing that involves servers with Solaris.

More curious, however, is the following news suggesting a GPLv3 embrace at Sun Microsystems. This is encouraging for a variety of reasons, including the effects on licensing of the Linux kernel (it could be pushed to GPLv3).

XVM consists of two components: xVM Server, a hypervisor with support for Linux, Solaris and Windows guest operating systems; and xVM Ops Center, a management console. The Ops Center project will be released under the open source GPLv3 license, and Sun has set up a community site at [www.openxVM.org].