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Is java is open source language?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Yes and no. The language itself is well defined and open for anyone to implement.

As for the implementations, the official one from Oracle (formerly Sun) is not open source. OpenJDK, thanks to help from Sun, Oracle, IBM, and other large companies is an open source implementation.

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