jim fleming writes [amongst other things]:

   Mr. Gafter has indicated that Java has been placed in the public domain
   by Sun because Sun does not intend to support it.

what he indicates is of no consequence. copyright and license
information is available under the java home page [http://java.sun.com].
additional information is available from various java/hotjava mailing lists
also mentioned in the home page. java development team is reachable
as java@java.sun.com.

oz
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