Guys - On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:35:18AM -0500, Al Davis wrote: > Is Sun's Java system completely GPL? > ... quick check ... Sun's Java is available in Debian as "non-free". > It's not enough for [kjwaves] to be GPL. All of the dependencies > must be free.
Al, I fully agree with your definitions. Java is in transition to becoming fully Free. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IcedTea Debian seems to be lagging (as usual). There are Ubuntu and Fedora builds already. There is recent news about cooperation between Sun and the IcedTea project. http://open.itworld.com/4917/071105redhatjava/page_1.html So the future is bright for Free Java -- and by extension for Free projects written in Java -- even if it's not practical right now. > If I find a simple change I can make that makes my system work for more > people, I do it. Making kjwaves work on GNU Java is such a change. Beyond that, code quality is generally improved by making it portable and standards-compliant. I encourage Kurt Peters to try harder to make kjwaves work with non-Sun Java, or at least delineate specifically what features/bugs make that difficult. - Larry _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user