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Oracle initiated a discussion 2 days ago on the OpenJDK discuss mailing list for creating the JFX project. Hopefully this will lead to a completely open source implementation of JavaFX.

Richard Bair: Hi OpenJDK community!
As announced at JavaOne we (Oracle) would love to contribute JavaFX into OpenJDK as a new project called "JFX". For some who have been following along, we've talked about this for a long time but finally (finally!) we're ready to act on it and open source the platform. We are not just interested in open sourcing the code, however, we also want to move into an open development model. We already have an open bug database[1]. The project uses Mercurial, so we should fit in pretty well into OpenJDK.
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Contrast this with the situation from 1254 days ago, when things were going in the opposite direction.

A big thank you to Stephen Chin for making real the community sentiment on open sourcing JavaFX.