GWT 1.3 Release Candidate is 100% Open Source

http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2006/12/gwt-13-release-candidate-is-100-open_12.html
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By Bruce Johnson, Tech Lead - Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Today is quite a milestone for Google Web Toolkit: with the GWT 1.3 Release
Candidate, our team is very happy to announce that all of GWT is open source
under the Apache 2.0 license. There's a lot to say, but let's start with our
mission:
"To radically improve the web experience for users by enabling developers to
use existing Java tools to build no-compromise AJAX for any modern browser."

Since our primary mission is to help users (as opposed to hoarding
proprietary development tools), opening up GWT has always been a no-brainer
-- we just had to decide when. Now that GWT has some serious adoption and a
lively user community, open-sourcing is the obvious next step to help GWT
evolve more quickly.

And we're committed to doing this the Right Way. All of our development will
be done in the open, and we're going to be working directly from the GWT
project on Google Code. We've created a charter document ("Making GWT
Better") that describes the philosophical foundations of GWT as well as the
nuts and bolts of compiling GWT yourself, contributing code, and
participating in the new Google Web Toolkit Contributors group. We'll be
discussing the GWT roadmap and all technical decisions publicly, we've
republished the GWT web site documentation under a Creative Commons license,
and, while we're at it, we'll be publishing our team meeting notes to the
contributors group.

So, what's new in this 1.3 RC? Well, nothing, actually. The only thing that
has intentionally changed since GWT 1.2 is the open source thing. However,
since we did have to tweak a lot of source code and the GWT build scripts to
make it easy for anyone to compile, we want to be conservative and call this
a Release Candidate anyway. Once we hear enough success stories with
the 1.3RC, we'll call it
1.3 Final then get back to full-speed-ahead coding as we drive toward a nice
big GWT 1.4.

So there you have it, GWT is open source!
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