-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 18:25 schrieb Sven de Marothy: > On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 12:12, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > Sven de Marothy wrote: > > > Robert Schuster wrote: > > >>javax.imageio support would be great. I searched for Java > > >> libraries with friendly licenses and this one seemed to be > > >> very interesting: > > >> > > >> > > >>JIU - The Java Imaging Utilities - > > >>http://jiu.sourceforge.net/status.html - GPL > > > > > > Unfortunately, I don't think we can use GPL code, since > > > Classpath's license is GPL + exception, which is a more > > > permissable license. (I.e. you can go GPL+exception-->GPL but > > > not in the other direction.) > > > > I could ask him if he'd like to contribute his code to GNU > > Classpath. GPL is OK for staging it in Kaffe until it's ready for > > inclusion into GNU Classpath if he agrees. The JIU author is > > doing some really nice work on collecting a nice list of VM ports > > & languages for the JVM, btw.. > > Looking closer, apparently JIU doesn't include a JPEG encoder, but > rather uses imageio.. see this thread: > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1108586&forum_id=5 >1534 > > A LGPL encoder and decoder is part of Kary Fr�mling's JVG package: > http://www.cs.hut.fi/~framling/JVG/ > > Although the LGPL is still more restrictive than the GPL+exception, > it's not -much- more restrictive. So that might be a good place > to solicit for contributions. > > > > But.. on the positive side, there are rumors that Michael Koch > > > has finished the imageio framework (but not the plugins). > > > > Michael Koch is being awesome, as usual. ;) > > I'll second that.. His commit rate is giving me an inferiority > complex. =)
Note that I wrote most of this code over a year ago. I just never commited it. Now I go through it again and need to hammer my head onto my desk all the time. Never look at code you wrote more then 12 month ago ... Michael - -- Homepage: http://www.worldforge.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBYs+uWSOgCCdjSDsRAsuuAJ9WfDC1SEnPpXHfr36OzkFXJXRlgQCfWJ8g sPED6pbRY2xmW2HZ2VdKUY0= =sOhX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
