An article at CNET news.com claims that Sun is contemplating an unusual value-add for customers licensing its Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME): indemnity from SCO lawsuits involving Linux.

J2ME is used on smartphones, PDAs, and similar small embedded systems. It competes with Microsoft's .NET framework for small devices. Microsoft earlier acceeded to SCO's licensing demands for technology related to UNIX.

Details of just how Sun would provide indemnity are not clear. Sun licenses the rights to parts of UNIX from SCO for use in its Solaris operating system, and probably has the broadest rights to UNIX of anyone in the industry, the article asserts.

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