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The Free Software Foundation is no longer committing to the planned March deadline for a new version of the General Public License, but a third draft of the seminal open-source license is due soon.
Sun has backed up an announcement that its Solaris server operating system will have an open source flavour by making a similar promise for its Java technology.
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