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From: | Julien Lepiller |
Subject: | [bug#33008] [WIP] openjdk 9 and 10 |
Date: | Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:23:52 +0200 |
User-agent: | Roundcube Webmail/1.3.6 |
Hi Julien, Could you, or somebody, perhaps explain to me what the difference between the IcedTea distribution and OpenJDK is?
OpenJDK is the free software version of Oracle's (or Sun's) JDK. It used to lack a few components to be buildable and runnable with only free software, and was a collection of separate components that were hard to build. IcedTea is a project to build a coherent collection of these components, and it also implemented a few missing components. IcedTea is only available for Java 6 to 8. From java 9, oracle did provide enough free software components and buildable sources, so we can build OpenJDK without a project like IcedTea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IcedTea for more information ;)
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