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> Has anyone asked Sun whether they would dual-license the needed header files
> under a BSD-friendly license?

Yes. Current answer is they'll think about it.

> Or whether they would publish the APIs via an
> RFC so that you could easily re-implement against that as a published spec?

I don't know. That would be the cleanest approach.

> Sun's released lots of things like XDR and NFS via RFCs, so it's at least not
> unprecedented.  :-)

Its not a communications interface. They don't really have anything to
gain (expect perhaps for good will), from standardizing it.

 -Kip