Editing OpenOffice.org (section)

=== Use of Java ===
Although originally written in C++, OpenOffice.org became increasingly reliant on the Java Runtime Environment, even including a bundled [[Java virtual machine|JVM]].<ref name=bundled-java>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105133104/http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/java.html|archive-date=5 January 2012|url=http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/java.html|title=Java & OpenOffice.org|publisher=Apache Software Foundation|access-date=30 December 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> OpenOffice.org was criticized by the Free Software Foundation for its increasing dependency on Java, which was not [[free software]].<ref name="Byfield">{{cite news |last=Byfield |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Byfield |title=Free Software Foundation and OpenOffice.org team up to escape Java trap |publisher=[[Linux Foundation]] |work=[[linux.com]] |date=16 May 2005 |url=http://www.linux.com/feature/44959 |access-date=9 September 2007 |archive-date=27 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080127130021/http://www.linux.com/feature/44959 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The issue came to the fore in May 2005, when [[Richard Stallman]] appeared to call for a fork of the application in a posting on the Free Software Foundation website.<ref name="Byfield"/> OpenOffice.org adopted a development guideline that future versions of OpenOffice.org would run on free implementations of Java and fixed the issues which previously prevented OpenOffice.org 2.0 from using free-software Java implementations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mail-archive.com/jdk@tools.openoffice.org/msg00005.html|title=Reoccuring discussions arounds OOos Java usage ''(sic)''|first=Kay|last=Ramme|work=tools-jdk mailing list|publisher=OpenOffice.org|date=11 May 2005|access-date=22 September 2013|archive-date=28 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928061527/http://www.mail-archive.com/jdk@tools.openoffice.org/msg00005.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 13 November 2006, Sun committed to releasing Java under the [[GNU General Public License]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/story.jsp |title=Sun Opens Java |access-date=25 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061116045838/http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/story.jsp |publisher=Sun Microsystems |archive-date=16 November 2006 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and had released a free software Java, [[OpenJDK]], by May 2007.