obviously the jini community could be much more healthy, given the great technology that drives it.
yes the scsl in fact has changed somewhat in its history and there is now a better situation for open source efforts in jini, but there is only one bigger open source project (cheiron) using jini at its core (outside of jini.org). And they have problems with the scsl using a dual license right now (bsd + scsl).
I can only imagine that it is fear of other companies taking the good ideas of jini for free and incorporate it in their products, in any other direction I don't understand the restricness and the virality of the license. Especially I think it is the wrong thing in regard of adoption for open source. - I mean look at JXTA it has a BSD license and there aren't millions of incompatible JXTA versions arround there ...
my question: how are you feeling about the jini license, is anybody involved in a jini project lately?
are there any signs that sun changes its position on the licensing side?
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