Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Sep 2007 21:43 UTC, submitted by Mark Wielaard
Just in time for Fedora 8 test 2 IcedTea has landed in Fedora RawHide. The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from the Sun OpenJDK project using Free Software build tools (gcj) and provides replacements for the non-free binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project. Installing this experimental GPL Java platfom is now as easy as yum install java-1.7.0-icedtea. In addition, Sun has promised to provide a Test Compatibility Kit soon so people can see how 'officially Java' this package really is.
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maybe this is just me being ignorant of the situation but, didnt sun open source there java run time environment? and if so why not simply include that instead of a hybid merger with classpath? why settle for an imposter when you can have the real thing? (nohting against classpath)
Because as the news snippet states, there are some portions that are binary only. Sun was only able to open the source for the portions that they had the rights to do so. Some parts (such as Java2D, and font rasterisation) were under 3rd party licenses.
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Because as the news snippet states, there are some portions that are binary only. Sun was only able to open the source for the portions that they had the rights to do so. Some parts (such as Java2D, and font rasterisation) were under 3rd party licenses.
I'd assume such things could be accomplished using things like Cairo/Freetype to plugin some of the gaps?
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maybe this is just me being ignorant of the situation but, didnt sun open source there java run time environment? and if so why not simply include that instead of a hybid merger with classpath? why settle for an imposter when you can have the real thing? (nohting against classpath)