From owner-freebsd-java Fri Apr 20 13:35:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAAC737B422; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:35:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12202; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:35:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15116; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:35:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15072.40352.792415.841000@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:35:44 -0600 (MDT) To: Uncle George Cc: Nate Williams , Maxim Sobolev , nate@FreeBSD.org, java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: java for FreeBSD/alpha In-Reply-To: <3AE09CCC.D0675C39@voicenet.com> References: <3AD882C5.EEEC722@voicenet.com> <3ADC3018.9D9F7E08@FreeBSD.org> <15068.24769.146325.318029@nomad.yogotech.com> <3ADC7EBD.A5D5FE7E@voicenet.com> <15068.25961.466201.569075@nomad.yogotech.com> <3ADC831A.720F92CC@voicenet.com> <15068.27106.728509.935881@nomad.yogotech.com> <3AE059B6.2F002CB5@voicenet.com> <15072.23328.902845.309887@nomad.yogotech.com> <3AE073CA.181ACED4@voicenet.com> <15072.36620.925152.750311@nomad.yogotech.com> <3AE09CCC.D0675C39@voicenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It is clear that that the "bin" licensing issue has not yet been > resolved. Is there any ETA on when this will happen. 9 months ago? Seriously, this is an ongoing process that just hasn't been resolved, despite the efforts of the JDK team, Sun product engineers, and (now former) employees of BSDi. There is a long and dark story I could give, but I'll avoid it. :) > It seems that at present nothing is ever going to happen if this has > not, or will not be resolved to every one's satisfaction. I would have > though that after some 6 months from the last announcement ( 10/2000 ) > that there would be some progress towards an amicable solution. Have you ever dealt with lawyers before? *grin* Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message