After I blogged about the FreeBSD/Sun issue, a couple of people from Sun contacted me, stating that they thought it was all just bad communication, and asked how to get ahold of the people on the FreeBSD side.
They got ahold of them, and it looks like everything is sorted out:
FreeBSD’s Secretary/Treasurer: Java License Troubles Being Worked Out
Recently the FreeBSD Foundation issued a newsletter stating its frustration with Sun Microsystems over licensing of the Java Virtual Machine. Specifically, the Foundation had its license revoked, and had been trying to renegotiate with little success reaching anyone at Sun who could do anything about it.
OSDir has followed up with Justin Gibbs, Secretary/Treasurer of the Foundation to see what has resulted from the publicity resulting of the issue.
Mr Gibbs had this to say, “The Foundation’s Java licensing issue boils down to poor communication on all sides. Our newsletter caught the attention of the ‘right person’ at Sun to cut through the clutter and we now expect to quickly find a satisfactory resolution. The FreeBSD Foundation will follow up its newsletter with an update on Java licensing as soon as we can announce the good news, but our current belief is that this little hiccup will have no impact to the allowed uses for our binary distributions.”
