| i just got MIT's permission to package Starlogo[1] for Debian. It's | a Java application to simulate cellular automata and large | populations on distributed machines.
<snip> | The second major challenge I see in the source code issue. MIT | doesn't release the source code, so I guess it is not viable for | Debian. Am I right, and should I push them to release to us, or are | there even other issues at stake here? Well, if it's a java app, it can be decompiled back into source. There are a few apps designed to do just that, but I don't know of any in Debian in particular. IMHO, Java is potentially the greatest open source language there is, since it is simple to decompile back to source. I say simple, but then, I didn't write the decompiler. :) Just my $0.02, Brooks
