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The general availability of a distributable version of Java will benefit end users, commercial users, and developers who use FreeBSD. Java continues to grow in popularity and has become heavily used in server side web applications, one of FreeBSD's core areas of strength. With an officially licensed binary Java distribution, FreeBSD becomes an ideal platform for execution, development, and deployment of Java based solutions. This agreement would not have been possible without the efforts of Nate Williams. Nate not only started the FreeBSD Java porting effort, but also brought Sun Microsystems and the Foundation together to negotiate a license. The FreeBSD Foundation, a 5013 non-profit Colorado corporation, is dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project. In addition to sponsoring the development and promotion of FreeBSD, as a recognized legal entity, the Foundation can enter into legal contracts and hold intellectual property in trust for the Project. The Foundation hopes that today's license agreement announcement is only the first of many occasions where the Foundation's legal status allows FreeBSD to grow in ways that would not otherwise be possible. The FreeBSD Foundation relies solely on contributions from individuals and businesses to fund its activities. In negotiating the JDK/JRE license, where both parties were in almost immediate agreement to the license terms, the Foundation still spent in excess of $3000 on legal fees. Highly qualified and experienced legal counsel is the expensive yet necessary cost of protecting the best interests of the FreeBSD Project. This particular activity was funded solely by contributions from the FreeBSD Foundation's board of directors. The Foundation will only be able to continue its work with further contributions from the general public. Donations to the Foundation are usually considered tax-deductible for those paying United States Federal income tax. Bora Ertung Sunday, January 06 @ 7:26 am PST The details of the license aggrement is not clear? Ive been runnung all the java stuff (tomcat, cocoon, etc) that runs on linux except for j2me stuff. Jiawei Ye Monday, December 24 @ 9:05 am PST You get native support out of the box, if I hadn't read the news wrong. It saves a lot of work and I must say it's a great job by the FreeBSD foundation. Bowo M Oenar 22 Bowo Wednesday, December 26 @ 12:46 pm PST Then, this words should be removed from FreeBSD site: "This is the offical port of Sun's Java Development Kit for FreeBSD. Then you start the port, which will apply a patch set file (which you have to fetch manually too) to the aquired Sun sources and then builds the whole stuff. Compare this to the usual build, which fetches the source automatically and comes with the patches. Plus under this license it was forbidden to roll a custom binary releas as there was no permission from Sun. In the future you will be able to get a ready made binary tarball. Perhaps building from source will get less bureaucratic as well. Regards, Marc Oracle and BSD Jason R Fink Sunday, December 23 @ 5:26 pm PST Actually I wonder two things. First will this entice Oracle to actually say thay support FreeBSD (leat alone any BSD) and is there a chance that NetBSD will be able to port this (even with emul)? Sunday, December 23 @ 2:10 am PST I am so pleased to hear this. Kees Jan Koster Saturday, December 22 @ 11:47 pm PST Dear All, and Nate Williams in particular, What can I say? Java is a fact of life in internet and corporate development; Many thanks to Nate and the rest of the FreeBSD Java team, for being great coders and for being so persistent. Thanks also to the FreeBSD Foundation for providing the legal and financial framework to bring this about. Aaron Mildenstein 30 Aaron at mildensteins dot com Sunday, December 23 @ 4:40 pm PST I'm with you 100%! Cheers for the FreeBSD Foundation Dominic Marks Saturday, December 22 @ 10:45 am PST Great! I'm sure this will be very gladly welcomed by anyone using FreeBSD and Java.
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