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siliconvalley.internet.com: Sun, JBoss Inch Towards ‘SCSL’ Settlement

A longstanding licensing debate between Sun Microsystems and
open source firm JBoss Group is soon coming to an end, according to
the man helping drive the negotiations.

“Bob Bickel, who was recently named as JBoss vice president of
strategy and corporate development, tells internetnews.com the two
sides have all but “closed the gaps.”

“‘The only thing hanging out now is in their standard SCSL [Sun
Community Source Licensing] contract,’ Bickel said. ‘As soon as
that happens, all of our releases going forward have to be
certified…'”

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