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Re:OpenJDK is now on GitHub by mhh__ on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:52PM (#24410857)
> Most of which take the OpenJDK source, sprinkle in some "secret sauce" and then compile the entire thing for convenience of users.

As in GPL violations? (I've never had the pleasure(?) to use java properly, so I'm not familiar)

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Re:OpenJDK is now on GitHub by Rebelgecko on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @02:21PM (#24411209)
Dunno what previous poster is referring to, but none that I know of.

For example Amazon Corretto is on GitHub, and Amazon gives a pretty good breakdown of the patches that make it different from the equivalent OpenJDK version (funnily enough, most of the changes are actually just backporting bug fixes from OpenJDK11 into Amazon's equivalent of OpenJDK8)

There's the Oracle JDK which has some onerous licensing, but IIRC the actual JDK is the same, they just include some extra binaries in the distribution

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Re:OpenJDK is now on GitHub by singlow on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @02:34PM (#24411390)
Not literally secret. They are just the changes that are particular to an environment or specific use case. They are just not things that are likely to get upstreamed so they are maintained as a fork.
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