The closing of this question as _off-topic_ doesn't make sense to me:

http://serverfault.com/questions/342467/how-does-the-change-in-java-licensing-affect-freebsd

The reason is:

> Questions on Server Fault are expected to generally relate to servers,
> networking, or desktop infrastructure, within the scope defined in the faq.
> See the FAQ.

I've already seen the FAQ. Is there some way that Java or licensing is not relevant to servers? I'm admin to a couple dozen servers that run Java application servers, and have already seen Red Hat try to remove Sun Java 1.5 because of support issues. Now Ubuntu will remove Sun Java 6 from servers because of licensing issues.

So, this question is still relevant to servers - even if the answer makes my question moot.