Afair icedtea, openjdk, jdk share a Lot of Code. Am 16.01.2013 15:18 schrieb "Michael Mol" <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Daniel Campbell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 01/15/2013 11:32 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > >> On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: > >>> I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I > >>> would think that since the icedtea vm is not the same as the sun/oracle > >>> one and so I don't think the code base is the same, which would mean an > >>> exploit in the sun/oracle jvm would not necessarily affect icedtea. > >>> However, I know very little on this matter and seeing as i think both > >>> are open sourced i have no idea how much or if there is any code > overlap. > >>> > >> > >> Oracle Java is open source? > >> > >> -- > >> Nilesh Govindarajan > >> http://nileshgr.com > >> > > > > I was thinking the same thing. Last I knew, the VM is closed while the > > language is pretty much open. > > IIRC, the VM spec is open, the implementation isn't. Further, the > supporting libraries are open (as in you can see them). The biggest > 'closed' aspect is the pricey (and terms-restricting) certification > process to get a different implementation certified. > > But I might be woefully out of date. > > -- > :wq > >
