# Sun Opens Java Under GPL

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sun-opens-java-under-gpl/75827>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 13, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sun-opens-java-under-gpl/75827 "2006-11-13T18:51:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![headius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7c8e57/32.png) [@headius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/headius)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sun-opens-java-under-gpl/75827/1 "2006-11-13T18:51:44Z")

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If you haven’t heard about this, you haven’t been paying attention 🙂  
But here it is anyway…

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I know it’s not strictly Ruby-related, but it does mean that JRuby will  
now have a best-class open-source JVM under it. So other than prejudices  
folks might have about the design of Java or the JVM, there’s now no  
political reason why you couldn’t run JRuby on a typical OSS system.

Anyway, exciting news for Sun, Java, and everyone with a stake in such  
things.