The Sun JDK is now completely available under the GPL from http://openjdk.java.net/, at the exception of a few modules (font rendering and audio I think) which are distributed as blobs.

This is now the end of endless stupid flamewars against Java being unpure and not free... or even evil :-)

I am myself very happy by this complete release of the code base. I confess I was even a hard Sun-basher when they were still against the Java opensource move. My main complain was mainly the one of portability across more than the Sun-blessed platforms. I remember myself compiling the JDK on FreeBSD, having to register to download the source code from Sun under the SCCL license, then have a huge patch being applied and come back the next morning for the JDK to be installed :-) There are also many people out there running other hardware/os combinations than Windows, Linux/Intel-AMD or Mac OS X, so this move will make it even more true to say that Java actually is a universal runtime platform.

Many thanks to Sun for this move ... and thanks also to them for their overall HUGE contribution to the opensource ecosystem (think OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris, ZFS, ...).