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Sun Unilaterally Revokes the FreeBSD Java License

Posted by CowboyNeal on

ravenII writes "The FreeBSD foundation has announced the news of Sun terminating the SCSL OEM-like license given to FreeBSD foundation. The foundation's attempts to contact Sun to renegotiate the license have gone unanswered. Javalobby.org also carries the news." It would seem that Sun has terminated all SCSL licenses across the board in preparation for the release of Java 5, and while the renegotiation process may be a bit bumpy, it's likely that Java will continue to be ported to FreeBSD.

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  1. Re:About the money. by Tet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh for a -1 Inarticulate Rambling modifier...

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  2. Netcraft confirms: BSD trolls are dead. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 3, Funny

    What? a BSD news item with only 1 out of 31 messages modded down? What is the world coming to?

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  3. Re:A case of bad communication by SunFan · · Score: 2, Funny

    But a very nice reminder of what SUN can do to those using Java.

    So...what do you think about .NET?

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