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Computer giant Sun Microsystems says it will offer programming language Java to the open source community. (...) The same type of licence also covers the distribution of the core, or kernel, of the open source operating system Linux.
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Sun Microsystems plans to release the first Java code later today under the General Public Licence (GPL).
The vendor will release the source code for Java C and Hotspot VM, as promised in August, both of which are components of the Java Developer Kit.
Sun will also unveil a Java help system, and a release of the Java Virtual Machine is promised for early 2007.
On Monday... made several key components of Java available for free download and will release the rest in 2007. Altogether it will put some 6 million lines of Java code into the public domain, making it one of the largest such grants to date.
