Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:44:48 +0100, Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
Hi,
I have a question to one of my packages (Jmol, LGPL licensed), I unofficially maintain.
Sources: http://debian.wgdd.de/debian/dists/unstable/contrib/source/science/
The package source comes with a few precompiled Java binaries (.jar). Now I have the possibility to use Debian packages instead of the distributed ones (e.g. commons-cli.jar, itext.jar).
You should ;-)
But there are still a few libraries left (netscape.jar, Acme.jar, vecmath1.2-1.14.jar), which do not exist in the Debian distribution.
What is netscape.jar? Is it javascript (see rhino)? Is it about ldap (see libldap-java)?
Acme.jar is just one or two classes and I think it's free, but I don't know which package could give you these two classes. Just open the jar and put the content in jmol.jar.
I have also in some programs depend on acme. I try to patch the stuff out as I don't know if its really unproblematic to distribute.
It says it is public domain, but the package contains - beside the widespread used gif encoder - several crypto stuff which is maybe problematic.
http://www.acme.com/java/software/
Should we maybe ask debian-legal for clarification ?
The other problem is that one class depends on sun internal classes.
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This software is written for JDK1.0.2, but with one exception it also compiles under JDK1.1. You'll get a lot of warnings about deprecated methods, but it'll work. The only exception is StubToolkit, where I had to use some of the internal sun.* classes.
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I don't know if you use this class - but for a main packages it has to be patched out - or patched for another implementation.
If the (maybe) legal problems are solved, I would prepare a package with the removed StubToolkit class.
Someone is working on vecmath.
I will provide a first version soon !
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Regards,
Wolfgang
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