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Tim Bray indicates that almost all the legal impediments before an open-source java are cleared. Now this really means there might be, one day, a clean java, something that does cause headaches to distributions!

I much love the GNU Classpath license… really… as simple as that: do whatever you want to “link to it” but there rest is the GPL-full-land.

Just found this by browsing randomly. Very delicious: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/~cmiller/Linux+Is this is a very good summary of the traumatic experience many folks do while being proud of running a cleanly free software.

There are virtues in cleanly free software, and thanks god there are folks that take time to actually endure the woes up-there and that period is over for me since a few years.

The real virtues lie in the realization of the long-term impact of the licensing policies… which has carried a lot of its fruits, e.g. with the realization of the most dom