Gene Heskett wrote:
Besides a compatible version of Java requires signing a test suite which
until recently came with onerous restrictions that has been lifted and
paved the way to better compatibility.
http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/11/05/red-hat-helps-advance-open-source-jav
a/
Rahul
Excellent news, Rahul. Unforch not in time for F8, F9 maybe?
IcedTea which is included already in Fedora 8 (and other distributions)
already is as close as it gets to a 100% open source OpenJDK. Removing
the remaining binary encumbrances from OpenJDK has been a slow process.
Sun has licensed third party code which frequently needs to be entirely
replaced with free and open source equivalents or written from scratch
and plugged in. The agreement between Red Hat and Sun helps here but it
is no magic bullet. There is ongoing work on this and IcedTea will
continue to pull in the latest bits from OpenJDK. More details at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/ThomasFitzsimmons
The other important reason to continue with a alternative implementation
is the OpenJDK is currently x86 only while Fedora already supports
x86_64 and PPC and more architecture support being added for upcoming
releases.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures
Rahul
