Sun Works With Apache Software Foundation

The Jakarta group had raised some concerns over the proposed Java Specification Participation Agreement. After some hemming and hawing, it appears that the Java Community Process chair (Sun) has agreed with the ASF's concerns - but IANAL ^? . If you have more info, paste it below.

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Re:Above and beyond

[ddstreet]

use $3 million of their own money

I think if you read it more closely, it says:

Sun will therefore offer an annual support scholarship program to suitably qualified efforts to cover access to support services for TCKs offered by Sun.

Which limits it to TCKs offered by Sun - meaning Sun doesn't actually spend any money, they just don't take any money in for those specific cases (they're not losing anything, since those implementors can't afford Sun's prices anyway!)

So while it's kinda nice, Sun is not spending 3 million, and is not really losing any money either - those who get the free license by definition couldn't afford it in the first place.

Re:Could you provide a link?`

[jhunter]

Here's the behind the scenes story from the Apache perspective, written by the Apache representative to the JCP.

Apache's rep,
Jason Hunter