Anybody working on Sun's JavaHelp .jar (GPLed)

Arnaud Vandyck avandyck at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 21:38:29 UTC 2007


On 1/14/07, Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my haploview ITP needs JavaHelp which is distributed as a GPL jar from Sun at
> https://javahelp.dev.java.net/.
>
> Has anybody of yours worked on that already?

No ITP? Go and file one ;-)

> Another issue is the JIMI Java Imaging Library  from
> http://java.sun.com/products/jimi/. Is there any .deb bringing it?

JIMI is Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Binary Code License, so it's non-free.
It's super great that Sun goes freesoftware, but all their libs are
not! :'(

I don't know how we can ask or who?...

.. Maybe Tom Marble ;-)

Cheers,

PS: See you at the FOSDEM Tom ;-)

-- 
Arnaud Vandyck



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