The oracle community says that Java is open source then why the source code of the JVM is not provided along with JDK. The class that are provided inside src.zip are more of libraries required to run the Java Program.
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2Why would you need the JVM source code to use the JDK? – shmosel Apr 26 '18 at 02:36
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1Take a look at [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/2026360/3904086). – Emily Apr 26 '18 at 02:38
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1Go [nuts](http://hg.openjdk.java.net/). – Elliott Frisch Apr 26 '18 at 02:39
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The source is much bigger than the release so adding all the source would make it much bigger to download and install, however you rarely need to see the original other than what is provided in src.zip. – Peter Lawrey Apr 26 '18 at 07:18
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Many open source projects make downloading the source for that program/library optional. – Peter Lawrey Apr 26 '18 at 07:19