History
On 13 November 2006, Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Java Development Kit (JDK) were made available under the GPL license (see Sun's OpenJDK Hotspot page).
Since version 0.95, GNU Classpath, a free implementation of the Java Class Library, supports compiling and running javac using the Classpath runtime (GIJ) and compiler (GCJ), and also allows one to compile the GNU Classpath class library, tools and examples with javac itself.
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