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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2006-09-30
.. source.
Of the 4-5% of remaining closed parts (Java sound, java.color.* classes, font and antialised shape rasterizer being the major pieces) Sun actually contributed the majority - color, font and AA shape rasterizer.
It would be nice if it was recognized a bit more in TFA.
Dmitri
Java2D Team