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Red Hat, which says it has always supported Sun’s attempts to build an open source community around Java, has made its support a little more official by signing Sun’s contributor agreement that covers participation in all Sun-led open source projects by all Red Hat engineers.

This goes to show that the father of Java, James Gosling, was being a little pessimistic when I interviewed him back in March this year: he said that the open sourcing of Java would make little difference to the range and depth of people helping to support its ecosystem because it was already a community process before it was open sourced.

Red Hat has also signed Sun’s OpenJDK Community TCK License Agreement. “This agreement gives the company access to the test suite that determines whether an implementation of the Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) platform that is derived from the OpenJDK project complies with the Java SE 6 specification,” the firm noted.

Original post by Jason Stamper and software by Elliott Back