Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Nov 2006 08:46 UTC, submitted by someone
The cat is out of the bag: Java will be released under the GPL. Joshua Marinacci writes: "I think it makes a lot of sense because it protects Sun's interest in preventing forks and also the community's interest in knowing that Java will forever be available in the public sphere. The GPL has always provided an option to fork just in case someone takes the code in a bad direction. Historically having this option available ensures that it never needs to actually be used, letting the community grow and thrive."
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2005-06-30
"Unmodified GPL2 for our SE, ME, and EE code. GPL2 + Classpath exception for the SE libraries"
Source:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/11/12/OSS-Java
So I think the applications doesn't have to be GPL, even if they extend the SE libraries.