Bob Brewin, software CTO at Sun Microsystems Inc., said the company will discuss the state of its open-source plans for Java and present the first CommunityOne day for open source and Web developers at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco next week. In an interview with Computerworld on Tuesday, Brewin said that the company is on track to make all Java products available under the same General Public License (GPL) that Linux carries. He added that the company continues to mull over whether to make the Solaris operating system available under GPL.  Solaris is now available under the Sun-created Community Development and Distribution License.

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