Future of Java : Open Source Projects and Communities

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Open Source is

  1. Freedom to redistribute
  2. Source Code
  3. Freedom to create derived works
  4. Integrity or authors
  5. No discrimination against persons
  6. No discrimination against purpose

Licence Categories

  • A. Attribution BSD
  • B. Derivatives may be licenced differently CDDL, MOZIILLA
  • C. Derivatives must be shared GPL

Open Source is everywhere

  • 800,000 open source developers
  • Average experience 11
  • Average age 30
  • 87% of US companies use open source
  • IDC says its "the most significent software trend since 80's"
  • Its use is now insisted on by Brazilian and German governments

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