Newbie Query

[Amit Kumar Saha]

Hi all!

I am just trying to understand IcedTea better. I came across these
lines in the FAQ

"IcedTea is a build harness for the OpenJDK that provides stubs and
GNU Classpath replacements for the encumbered binary plugs, and allows
the OpenJDK to be bootstrapped against GCJ. It is not a fork of the
OpenJDK, and doesn't contain the OpenJDK source code. "

Could someone here please tell me what exactly do they mean? I am
aware of the encumbrances in Open JDK and I also have an idea about
GNU Classpath. If it does not contain Open JDK source code, whose
source code is it using for the non-encumbered portion?

Looking forward to hear from you.

Regards,
Amit

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