Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Thanks to Glen for raising the issue. The ideal approach is if Oleg would pack up his TIFFRenderer and donate it to the ASF accompanied with a software grant [1], but Oleg is a FOP committer and has a CLA on file. So if Oleg attaches a ZIP with the sources for the TIFFRenderer (ALv2 already applied) to a Bugzilla entry along with a note that we may include it in FOP, that's good enough for me. It's not that the thing is a big application in itself even though some people would argue works like Renaud's AWT patch and Oleg's TIFFRenderer must go/run through the Incubator.
To make things even more complicated, TIFFRenderer is just a thin wrapper around some weird licensed [1] Sun's codec sources, called "Java Advanced Imaging API 1.1.1 Sample Source" [2], which includes some provisional bits of JAI. I'm not sure if we want to use it. What about using full-blown JAI?
[1] http://www.tkachenko.com/fop/JAI_1.1.1_sample_io_sourcecodelic.10_23_01.txt
[2] http://java.sun.com/developer/sampsource/jai/
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Multiconn Technologies, Israel
