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Copyright issue is certainly the key if you are talking about SimSun (known as Song Ti on windows 9x - 2000). SimSun was developed by Beijing ZhongYi Inc, M$ bought the license to use this font on their windows product (SimSun18030 and YaHei now licensed by Founder). It is neither open-source, nor free (as beer), and the license fee is HUGE.
If Zhongyi had released SimSun under any type of open license, nobody would have spend years of his/her time to make a font of his/her own. Furthermore, I doubt any of these Chinese font companies would open-source their fonts (at least in the near future) as Arphic did, because they used to get huge profit from this.