Sun Microsystems is the latest company to become a patron of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The FSF’s corporate patron program allows companies to provide financial sponsorship for the FSF in return for free license consulting services. High-profile FSF patron affiliates include prominent technology companies like Google, Nokia, IBM, Cisco, and Intel. FSF involvement represents Sun’s latest attempt to take a more active role in the open-source software community.
This is an interesting turn seeing as how Sun have been undecided on the GPL for the past few years. They seem keen on GPL3, however.
Source: Ars Technica