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There's an interesting interview of Google's Bruce Johnson over at InfoQ. I thought his response to a question on open sourcing GWT was a little disappointing.
We've talked about that possibility from the beginning, so yes. Open-sourcing the tools right now could be more of a distraction than a help. It wouldn't serve GWT users if we took our eye off the ball by starting lots of discussions about the plumbing of GWT when we want to be focusing on making GWT the best it can be for developers. We'll periodically revisit the question as GWT evolves a bit more.
I think an Apache or BSD style license would make many more people take a look at incorporating GWT in their client work.
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