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Norway coughs up the kroners to support use of open source software in the public sector
Posted November 18th, 2008 by New Media RightsLegal Guide to GPL Compliance - Software Freedom Law Center
Posted September 8th, 2008 by New Media RightsSun: Java will be free this year
The only element that's left now is actually a sound-related component within Java. We finally decided that the vendor that's involved there just isn't going to play ball and we're rewriting the code from scratch. That's going to be done within the next couple of months."
Phipps says Java is expected to be completely free within the coming few months.
"I'm expecting that certainly by the end of this year and hopefully sooner we'll have all of the source code for Java under the GPL", he said. - ZDNet Asia












