Well, today's the day. The embargo ended last night at 12:00am eastern, and people have been talking about Sun's decision to use the GPLv2 (+exception for SE) for Java SE, ME and even Glassfish, which will apparently persist under the CDDL as well.

This is a good thing - it's more open source Java. I'm not a huge fan of the GPL myself, but that's ok. Sun has it's reasons and it's Sun's IP to license.

Sun was very gracious and has invited me to their announcement event today, and the press discussion afterwards. I'm very thankful that they did that. I just wish they held it in .... New York ... :) so that I didn't have to do JFK<->SFO twice in one week. Maybe next time :)

People are asking what this means for Apache Harmony. I don't think that it will change our day-to-day life much in the project. We have the same goals, the same problem to solve, the same work to get done. As I've noted elsewhere, Apache and Sun have different communities, with different licenses, different conditions for contribution and different governance models. Apache projects are a collection of peers, and each of us our own reasons for participating. I believe that this good news today from Sun doesn't change what we'll be doing - it just means even more open source Java, choices for users and contributors, and that's a good thing.