Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license

Posted Jan 11, 2005 7:43 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license by khim
Parent article: Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license

I really don't understand Sun's strategy. Why are the limiting binary distribution of something they give away for free (beer) anyway?

They want to control it. They do not like kaffe, gcj or some other uncontrolled surrogate to replace their implementation.

But that is precisely why Sun's attempts to limit the binary distribution of their own Java implementation are so weird! If Sun ensured that every platform had a well-working JVM and JDK in binary form with easy licenses, so all vendors/distro makers/BSD projects could include it without problems, very few people would be interested in kaffe, gcj etc.