Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Jun 2008 20:28 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Back in May 2006, Sun announced during the JavaOne conference it would release Java as open source, licensed as GPL software. While it was released as GPL, it still contained about 5 percent proprietary, non-free code - the Java trap, as the FSF calls it. The FSF called to dismantle this trap, and now the IcedTea project has reached an important milestone.
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2008-06-12
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Because Redhat was already working on it ? :-)
With Sun contributing 95% of the code I think we can safely say they've lived up to their part of the bargain.
Meanwhile Sun seems to be busy with JDK 7:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/