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Just a stupid beginner's question, which will be quickly solved, but I am curious.

http://www.irian.at/myfacesexamples/home.jsf says:

"MyFaces - The free JavaServer™ Faces Implementation"

Errr ... is Sun's implementation not free, then?

Thanks & Cheers Er

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I guess it could refer to MyFaces being free & open-source software, unlike (?) Sun's JSF implementation, even though the latter is "free as in beer". But note that official MyFaces website doesn't use such a designation.

Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre

Edit: As pakore points out in comments, also Mojarra (codename for the JSF reference implementation) is "free as in liberty" (using the CDDL license). So, it remains somewhat unclear where the slogan "the free JavaServer Faces Implementation" at that MyFaces examples site actually stems from. Maybe it doesn't matter too much. :-)

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    Em, Mojarra is open source as well. You can download the source code from their website. The license of the software is CDDL, which is free as in "freedom". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License – pakore May 17 '10 at 07:35
  • @pakore, ah, ok. I didn't know - that's why I put the (?) in there :-). Perhaps it wasn't free in the past, or then the person who created http://www.irian.at/myfacesexamples/home.jsf simply didn't know what he's talking about... – Jonik May 17 '10 at 11:18
  • don't worry, I wrote that because I saw your "?" :). It would be nice that you edit your response, so other readers won't think Mojarra's not free :). – pakore May 17 '10 at 13:56