John, I completely agree with your point that one can assign copyrights to an entity if one can trust it. Where I don't agree is in your conclusion whether Sun Microsystems is such a honest broker. My own experience from the project is that a lot of lip service is payed to improvements of all kind, but that more the things change more they are the same. And I have a tendency to distrust entities that are full of good intentions at long term, but when the long term becomes shorter one is seeing basically no result.
Not that I am expecting anything good to happen. Between helping to build a strong developer community and trying to accumulate other people's code for proprietary licensing, Sun already decided anyway.
