More on OpenJDK
Until today I thought that OpenJDK was a "product" that Sun would "release" in the same way that they are releasing OpenOffice, with it's own lifecycle, unaware of the commercial StarOffice.
I know that Sun's JDK aren't in that way a commercial product which they sell for money pr. license, but as a developer I think it would be cool to be able to download a binary relase of OpenJDK 1.0. Well, at least a source version with Ant scripts, called OpenJDK 1.0.
I know its a detail, because you can always download the latest OpenJDK, and build it yourself. But it's more difficult to tell people that "our software is based on OpenJDK build 200705101549 branch before-implementation-of-jsrxyz", than just "our software is based on OpenJDK 1.0, and is thus compatible with Sun JDK 7.0" or whatever.
Sun have no plan on giving OpenJDK versionnumbers like this. I proposed to them that they did so, if not only for marketing purposes, then also for doing the lifes of developers interested in OpenJDK easier. They listened, and admitted that they had actually not discussed things like this, and would propose it to the rest of their team.
The release of OpenJDK is a GPL-release. This means that the difference between JDK 6 and OpenJDK is, that the source code of OpenJDK have had all its licenses changed to GPL v2.
OpenJDK is by the way the same as the current branch of the "official" JDK 7 development version.
Gotta go - an interview awaits.
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