[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: GNU License text version

["Mike Milinkovich" <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Mind you, I wonder if Sun picked the GPL (and for NetBeans some way down 
> the line) specifically because
> GPL and EPL are incompatible, whereas if they'd have used the AL instead, 
> it would have been (since Eclipse
> redistributes e.g. <a 
> href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.apache.ant/lib/";>Ant</a> 
> and others from
> ASF).

Sun actually picked [1] GPL with the Classpath exception [2], [3].

I have not checked with our lawyers, but my initial guess is that you will 
be able to run Eclipse on top of the FOSS'd Java without licensing issues.

[1] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp#b3
[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html
[3] http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t84256.html