RMS, previously, on Sun freeing java

Alfred M. Szmidt ams at gnu.org
Wed Nov 15 20:50:43 UTC 2006


   > Well, right now it's only a promise to release the source, but
   > that promise is backed up by prior action - the GPLing of Star
   > Office.

   I think Star Office is not under the GPL?

A version of Star Office was released under the LGPL (not the GPL) as
OpenOffice.  Star Office has always been under a non-free softwre
license.



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