Re: classpath faq entries stale

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 24 August 2010 23:43, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Just happened to notice that
> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/faq/faq.html#faq1_3 and 1_4, about
> Sun's Java, seem to be out of date, written before Sun freed the basic
> sources.
>
> Best,
> karl
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True, 3 and 4 could do with updating following the appearance of
OpenJDK but the general point of both still holds true; Oracle still
distribute proprietary binaries with non-Free (Java Research License)
source code, and the TCK is not Free Software and requires signing an
NDA.

I'll make appropriate updates.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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