If you were more paranoid...

If you were more paranoid than the level-headed codemonkey that I know you to be, your second reaction to Sun's releasing of Java under the GPL would be 'Yeah, but what about GPL v3?'

Sun's General Counsel blogs on that very question, and sounds reasonable enough. The justification for any attack of GPL v3 paranoia is the unfolding story of the Microsoft-Novell mutual indemnification society and the reaction of the GPL community, especially Eben Moglun's assertion that GPL v3 will be crafted to explicitly forbid whatever it is that Microsoft and Novell have done, and assertions here and there that this could kill v3.

In the light of this, it's nice to see that Sun seems to be on track with the evolution of the GPL.

Or am I being insufficiently paranoid?

Posted by Mike Swaine at 01:20 PM  Permalink