Oh! That's news for me. This is a very recent move by Sun. (As I had mentioned in my previous post, for some unknown reason IBM wanted Sun to make Java open source. finally they have budged.). This indded is a good move. The progress of the language will be too rapid now. The very good thing Sun did was keeping the governance in their own hands. This helps in maintaining better track of changes being done to the language.

It doesn't look like it will be made completely "open source". Sun still has a hand in it. I don't think Sun will allow you to change the code and release the (say) vmshenoy Java. If it has to be called FOSS, it should allow you to that. (In due time they might comeup with that too).

As far as I could see, JAVA ME is being offered under GNU V2 licence. By the way, the community is yet to be opened in full mode. Some of the components (like JAVA EE) are yet to fall under GNU licence.

Don't have time now to go through all the ifs and buts. Check those and post the components which are under GNU licence currently post for us, will you? Atleast it'll help me

Yes. One can call JAVA FOSS now. (Once all the code falls under GNU public licence).

PS: You definitely seem to be in love with Java. I guess it will be exciting for you to know that you can have your own version of Java

Cheers!
Kalayama