The Apache foundation has decided to the Harmony project to stop. Harmony is an open source Java implementation, of which a part is used in the Java vm of Android. Previously got Apache already from the Java foundation.
Twenty of the 22 Apache board members voted according to Zone-H for the move of the Harmony project to the so-called Apache Attic, the place for projects that have been disposed of. Only if the project is re-started, it can be Harmony again as an official Apache project return. Restart can be done in different ways, for example by creating a fork. Everyone, however, is free to take the source code of Harmony to use as the basis for further development.
In december, stepped to the Apache Software Foundation all from the board of the Java Community Process, the consultative body that the Java specification may determine. According to Apache, there was everything wrong with the license terms for the new Java SE versions, such as a prohibition on the distribution of open-source Java implementations. Harmony is directly affected by such a ban. What will also have played a role in the decision to stop, is that IBM has announced it will not participate to help in the development of Harmony.
Harmony was intended as an open-source implementation of Java, but there had been years of squabbling over the terms of the Java Compatibility Kit. That toolkit can be used to test whether an open-source Java implementation is compatible with the official toolkit. Sun, now Oracle, acquired, instituted strict requirements on the toolkit. So if this is not to be used for a Java implementation to test on any other hardware than a normal workstation. For example, kiosks and medical equipment fell because of this, the outside of the boat.