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Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license

Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license

Posted Jan 11, 2005 1:39 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license by armijn
Parent article: Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license

Of course. The problem is not "if Sun made such move out of malice".

The problem is that Sun was able to do this - and it's quite real problem: if tomorrow Sun will have "change of heart" and will recall all licenses... - there are literally nothing that can be done in short term.

RMS long ago written about it here. Looks like he was right after all...


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