[Gvsig_english] Free But Shackled - The Java Trap

[Virgilio Ramos]

Mario Pisa escribió:
> Hi,
>
> In this old issue, Richard Stallman advise about warnings with Free 
> Software (Not Open Source) and Java, With the released OpenJDK, the 
> FSF congratulations to Sun for his decission, but he said "We must 
> learn a lesson from the history of Java, so we can avoid other traps 
> in the future.".
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html
>
> AFAIK, Sun licensed GPL for Java 5 and 6 (Mustang and Dolphin) and, in 
> other hand, libraries for images 2D are not GPL (for example JAI).
>
> at this moment, if my knowledge is current, can I declare what gvSIG 
> is free? (yes, it's Open. But is Free?)
So. Anything that run in MacOS, Windows or any NOT GPL OS. Cant be Free?

>
> with the only spirit to generate a cordial debate that enrich us to all,
>
> Mario
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