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}}</ref> The incident revealed that there were long standing problems between Sun and Blackdown.

Despite widespread confusion, Blackdown was neither [[free software]] nor [[open-source software]]. It's binary redistribution policy allowed it to be pre-installed or included with many [[Linux distributions]] (e.g., [[Gentoo Linux]]), whereas at the time, Sun Java's binary redistribution policy did not. Since Java 5, the Operating System Distributor License for Java (DLJ) meetsmet many Linux distributions' requirements, lessening the demand for the older Blackdown JVM.

In 2006 and 2007, Sun released the vast majority of Java as [[OpenJDK]], under the free [[GNU General Public License]].<ref>{{ cite web

| url= http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2007-May.txt | title = Open JDK is here!

| publisher=Sun Microsystems

| date = May 8, 2007

| accessdate=May 9, 2007}}</ref>. This was quickly distributed and adopted by Linux distributions.

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