What is IcedTea?

[theUser BL]

Hi!

What is IcedTea?

There are two possibilites:

a) like GNU Classpath
extending only the closed-sourced OpenJDK-libraries with GNU Classpath 
parts. And like GNU Classpath it is then only a sourcecode-project. There 
are no binaries. And like GNU Classpath this libraries are created for gcj, 
kaffe, jamvm, cacao, ikvm, etc.

b) like Suns Java
you also create also binaries of IcedTea, where the VM is Suns HotSpot-VM. 
And then IcedTea ist mostly like Suns Java. Only the non-OpenSource-parts of 
OpenJDK with some other graphical parts
http://fkung.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/icedtea-graphics/
will be taken from GNU Classpath.

But it seems, that a) is right
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#What_is_IcedTea.3F
because it is mostly created for gcj and the developer are RedHat-developer 
(people behind gcj).

So, is it right, that a) is right?

Greatings
theuserbl

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