Apache's Ongoing Licensing Bout with Sun
Mar 16, 2009The recently updated Java Specification Requests (JSRs) show that the licensing battle between the Apache Software Foundation and Sun Microsystems (the force behind Java) still hasn't ended after raging for seven years.
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more »Google's Summer of Code Enters New Round in 2009
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