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OpenJDK, Mobile/Embedded, GlassFish are now licensed under GPLv2.

For years a set of the community has been up in arms shouting "open source Java!!!!". Although I think that it is the right thing to do, I don't think it is actually THAT big a deal for Java in many ways. It is big for linux, and that is good.

A panacea it is not, and I was hoping that once Java was open sourced people would move on and we would get back to doing real work. Now I fear that the next charge will be "GPL is evil!!!!". I worry about GPL, and have had some interesting discussions with attorneys on the topic that make me shiver, but I do look forward to talking about core issues in Java, rather than this stuff :)