"Cafe au Lait reports that 'Sun has unilaterally revoked the FreeBSD Foundation's Java license, and now can't seem to be bothered to negotiate a new license with them.'
"In their quarterly newsletter the FreeBSD foundation describes the situation in level-headed tone but with some clear frustration..."
"The FreeBSD Foundation and Sun Microsystems (Profile, Products, Articles) are negotiating a new license to continue distribution of binaries for the Java runtime and the JDK, for use with the FreeBSD open source operating system, according to the foundation.
"A FreeBSD official, while saying the license indeed had recently been revoked, said Sun has sought to renegotiate terms to standardize them..."