Today it is difficult for a single company to house all the expertise it needs to be successful, especially when a company wishes to build an infrastructure on which other businesses depend.
Businesses can no longer presume that they know how best to do everything.
Under the terms of the SCSL, Sun shares the rights to the source code among a community of developers to enhance and evolve Jini technology. The SCSL also establishes responsibilities to ensure compliant implementations and provides a business model that rewards innovation and invention by allowing licensees to create proprietary enhancements. Sun Microsystems has granted to the community cumulative rights to the intellectual property within Jini technology to allow developers to use, reproduce, and modify Jini technology source code. However, neither they nor third-parties, can deploy Research Use findings without committing to the Commercial Use licensing terms. Commercial Use licensees are granted the additional rights to distribute modified, compliant code for commercial use.