On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 12:12, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Sven de Marothy wrote: > > Robert Schuster wrote: > > > >>javax.imageio support would be great. I searched for Java libraries > >>with friendly licenses and this one seemed to be very interesting: > > > > > >>JIU - The Java Imaging Utilities - > >>http://jiu.sourceforge.net/status.html - GPL > > > > > > Unfortunately, I don't think we can use GPL code, since Classpath's > > license is GPL + exception, which is a more permissable license. > > (I.e. you can go GPL+exception-->GPL but not in the other direction.) > > I could ask him if he'd like to contribute his code to GNU Classpath. > GPL is OK for staging it in Kaffe until it's ready for inclusion into > GNU Classpath if he agrees. The JIU author is doing some really nice > work on collecting a nice list of VM ports & languages for the JVM, btw.
Looking closer, apparently JIU doesn't include a JPEG encoder, but rather uses imageio.. see this thread: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1108586&forum_id=51534 A LGPL encoder and decoder is part of Kary Fr�mling's JVG package: http://www.cs.hut.fi/~framling/JVG/ Although the LGPL is still more restrictive than the GPL+exception, it's not -much- more restrictive. So that might be a good place to solicit for contributions. > > But.. on the positive side, there are rumors that Michael Koch has > > finished the imageio framework (but not the plugins). > > Michael Koch is being awesome, as usual. ;) I'll second that.. His commit rate is giving me an inferiority complex. =) /Sven _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
