Newbie Query

[Andrew Haley]

Amit Kumar Saha writes:
 > 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?

When you build IcedTea you have to download OpenJDK from Sun.

Andrew.

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