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'''Free Java implementations''' are software projects that implement Oracle's [[Java (software platform)|Java]] technologies and are distributed under [[free software licences]], thus making them [[free software]]. Sun released most of its Java source code as free software in May 2007, so it can now almost be considered a free Java implementation.
 
Java implementations include compilers, runtimes, class libraries, etc.
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==Mid-1990s to 2006==
Probably theThe first free project to offer substantial parts of Java platform functionality was likely guavac, which began some time before November 1995.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/course/f96/hw/1/guavac-info
|title=Announcing: guavac 0.2.5, A free compiler for the Java language