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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.

Java has gained a lot of its power through the partnerships with many companies. The glorious luxury of Java development tools and of many libraries shows it well. And that was needed to face MicroSoft’s competition.

Now, that partnership will not be a reason, anymore, for open-source purists to refuse java for prophyllaxy reasons.