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Removing encumbrances in OpenJDK

The OpenJDK which was released by Sun contains some portions of code which could not be released as GPL due to third party licensing restrictions, software patents or other issues. These are generally referred to as encumbrances and require an extra package of binary code (or binary plugins) to be used in compiling the [...]

October 10th, 2007 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Java, Tech | one comment