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===Release of the class library===
Following their promise to release a [[Java Development Kit]] (JDK) based almost completely on free and open-source code in the first half of 2007,<ref>[http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp#b4 Oracle and Sun] {{Webarchive|url=https://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/65tawvVM4?url=web/20120303230525/http://www.oracle.com/us/sun/index.htm#b4 |date=March 3, 2012 }}. Sun.com (2011-10-04). Retrieved on 2013-08-09.</ref> Sun released the complete [[source code]] of the Java Class Library under the GPL on May 8, 2007, except for some limited parts that had been licensed to Sun by third parties and Sun was unable to [[Software relicensing|re-license]] under the GPL.<ref>{{cite web
| url= http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2007-May.txt | title = Open JDK is here!
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}}</ref> and, until September 2008, commits to the [[codebase]] were only made by Sun engineers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kennke.org/blog/2008/09/29/a-small-step-for-me/ |title=A small step for me |last=Kennke |first=Roman |date=September 29, 2008 |access-date=October 19, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003094214/http://kennke.org/blog/2008/09/29/a-small-step-for-me/ |archive-date=October 3, 2008 }}</ref> The process has improved and, {{as of|2010|lc=on}}, simple patches and backports from OpenJDK 7 to OpenJDK 6 can take place within hours rather than days.<ref>{{cite web