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		tomp on Oct 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: dl.google.com now served by Go Java is open source by the completely literal meaning of this word, but it is not in the spirit of open source, i.e. it is not free software (as was recently demonstrated by Oracle's lawsuit).

throwaway54-762 on Oct 26, 2012 [–]

It wasn't Free Software, but is now (more or less). IcedTea / Java 7, as shipped by Fedora &co, is entirely Free Software[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(software_platform)#Free_...

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