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Originally Posted by leebase
It was never open source. It was developed and owned by Sun. Oracle bought Sun.
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And Sun
open-sourced it.
Note that just because Java is open source doesn't mean Oracle doesn't still hold the copyright. There's a difference between being open source and public domain. Oracle can, and I think does, release it under different licenses if it chooses. So there's a commercial version and an open source version.
Note also, that the Java name is a trademark and whilst you can always get a copy of the open source code and re-release it, you can't necessarily call it "Java" - which was the basis of the lawsuit against Microsoft back in the day.