Re: [Classpathx-discuss] More Java Extensions

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 09:13, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >     I don't know if anyone here has heard about the recent release of Sun's
> > Project Looking Glass under the GPL.  Its no doubt a good sign to see
> > Sun releasing this interesting project under a true Free Software
> > license.  However, the Java code still depends on a couple of Java
> > extensions, namely Java 3D and Java Advanced Imaging.  I was wondering
> > if anyone knew about the possibility or the existence of an effort to
> > create Free Software implementations of these libraries?  Having these
> > would mean that Project Looking Glass would be more likely to run on a
> > Free platform.  At present, it is tied to proprietary Sun licenses, even
> > if the main code is under the GPL.
> 
> I'm not sure but maybe some developpers on classpath project already
> work on this.

That's what I'm trying to ascertain at the moment.  These are add-ons to
Sun's Java, and not part of the standard API or Classpath, so classpathx
seems the best place for any such projects.  If nothing does exist, I'm
prepared to start looking into it myself.  In that vein, it would be
interested to find out if anyone knows of any legal problems with this. 
I haven't seen any of the code for these, but I don't know if there is
something in the specifications that would prevent a Free
implementation.
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