>>>>> "NS" == Nico Seessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
NS> Another possibility would be to use com.ms.util.cab-Package but NS> the user would need to provide the corrent jar-file containing NS> these classes by hand >> What about the license, can I go to Microsoft and download them >> freely, place them on my FreeBSD box and play with them? NS> these classes are included with the MS VM, [extract and rejar] NS> I don't know what licensing issues are coming into place then, I NS> don't think anyone will say something if you repackage some NS> classes for personal use Not sure. Are you allowed to extract the talking paperclip from Word and use it on another box in a non Microsoft context 8-) NS> (but we could not distribute them with Ant I guess :-) ) Maybe they are available in a separate package at MS? Anybody else? NS> On the other hand it was easier to implement this than to compile NS> libcabinet on RH7 :-( What do you expect from a distribution that ships with a broken compiler plus a broken C library. Most JDKs don't work on RH 7 either. Stefan who still runs a heavily patched RH 6.1 based system.
