From owner-freebsd-java Fri Apr 20 13:50:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from crewsoft.com (ns.aenet.net [157.22.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C25937B422; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:50:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cedric@wireless-networks.com) X-csi-detect-spam: income_profit_fast_free Received: from [63.197.8.222] (account cberger@wireless-networks.com HELO wireless-networks.com) by crewsoft.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.2) with ESMTP id 609806; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:53:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3AE0A118.3D48F5F8@wireless-networks.com> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:50:32 -0700 From: Cedric Berger X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Uncle George , Maxim Sobolev , nate@FreeBSD.org, java@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: java for FreeBSD/alpha 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> <15072.40352.792415.841000@nomad.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nate Williams wrote: > > 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* Do you see any solution to this issue in the near future? Would it be good to start making some "noise" about that, sending a small story to JavaWorld and JavaLobby, for example? Cedric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message