FW: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

[Nick Johnson]

Ugh.  It looks like a case of something being blown completely out of
proportion.

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20041221-newsletter.shtml says "The
latest blow to our efforts was the recent notification of Sun's desire to
revoke and renegotiate the FreeBSD Foundation's SCSL [Sun Community Source
Licensing] license.  From what we can determine, Sun is re-negotiating all
SCSL licenses to standardize their Java revenue model...For now, it is
safe to assume that the Foundation will engage in another lengthy, and
potentially costly, licensing negotiation before our binary distributions
can continue."

So this bonehead posts this:
http://blogs.cocoondev.org/dims/archives/002628.html

And of course all the blogheads pick up the headline "SUN revokes
FreeBSD's SCSL License" as though it were the whole and complete gospel
truth.

What said bonehead fails to mention is that this affects only binary
distributions, that Sun wants to renegotiate the license, and that most
people who are using Java on FreeBSD now are probably not using a binary
distribution anyway, since they're likely building Java 1.4, not using the
Java 1.3 binary.  In any case, the Java port continues, life goes on, the
license will eventually be renegotiated, and this bonehead will still be a
bonehead.

   Nick

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>   One of you guys might want to fill him in a bit.
> Paul_Krill at infoworld.com
>
> Ted
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Paul Krill
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:53 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; glewis at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java
> >
> >
> > This is Paul Krill of Infoworld magazine. I would like to speak with
> > someone at FreeBSD regarding issues with Sun. I am at 415-978-3228 or
> > email me with a number where I can call you. Thanks.
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