Dissonance
James Gosling: We’ve got several thousand man-years of engineering in [Java], and we hear very strongly that if this thing turned into an open source project—where just any old person could check in stuff—they’d all freak. They’d all go screaming into the hills.
The next page goes on to mention NetBeans (Sun Public License) and Eclipse (Common Public License). No mention is made of Geronimo (Apache License) or JBoss (LGPL).
Meanwhile GCJ (GPL with the ‘libgcc exception’) and ClassPath (GPL with clarification and special exception) continue to make progress with OpenOffice.org (Dual LGPL and SISSL).