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is java open source
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hemapriya rao
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Joined: Jun 27, 2007
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is java an open source?
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Campbell Ritchie
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Joined: Oct 13, 2005
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No, it isn't. But it soon will be. See whether this Java website link helps.
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Jesper de Jong
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I guess that you really meant to ask "Are Sun's JRE and JDK open source?". The answer to that question is as Campbell already said: almost, but it's not completely open source yet. Almost all code of Sun's JRE and JDK has been open source, but Sun used some third-party code in their JRE and JDK that they cannot make open source, because they don't have the rights for it. Currently there are a number of people working to replace that code with open source code, so that it will be completely open source.
Note that there is already a 100% open source Java, called GNU Classpath. But it's only a partial implementation of Java 1.4 and it runs very slow compared to Sun's Java.
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D Rog
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I do not know what people mean by open source, but all Java sources are freely available. Everybody can also contribute in development of next version of JDK.
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Jesper de Jong
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That's right, in the OpenJDK project.
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