On 2013-01-16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Afair icedtea, openjdk, jdk share a Lot of Code.
Isn't IcedTea OpenJDK, or at least the name of the bundle OpenJDK + build system? > Am 16.01.2013 15:18 schrieb "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com>: > >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Daniel Campbell <dlcampb...@gmx.com> >> 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? >> >> >> > >> > 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 But I might be woefully out of date. -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
