Java JVM: GNU libgcj versus Sun

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz]

Tim Jackson a écrit :
> Bruno Costacurta wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> it seems that by default Ubuntu is deployed with GNU libgcj as a Java JVM.
>>
>> However I encountered few applications that do not work with it (ie. Oxygen 
>> XML Editor, MagicDraw UML, it seems Eclipse too..) which I corrected by 
>> specifying to each of these applications to use the Sun JVM previously 
>> installed manually ('manually' meaning as opposition to 'packaging').
>>
>> Questions :
>> - is it possible to remove the GNU libgcj package(s) under Ubuntu (I use 
>> Kubuntu Dapper 6.06) ?
>> - if yes : which package(s) should be removed ?
>>
>> Note: prerequisites of removal are:
>> - Sun JVM installed
>> - environment setups completed (PATH..etc..)
>> - .. other ?
>>
>> Cheers.
>> Bye,
>> Bruno
>>
> check out
> http://wiki.ubuntu.ro/RestrictedFormats#head-68565ae07a003332e82c9f23706638777396c249
> 

This just leads us to a question :

Now that The Sun 's JVM is GPL, what will be Ubuntu (and the Open Source 
Community) next move about that? Will them take the Offical JVM as the 
default one and work with sun to improve it ?