On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:14:50PM EST, Bill Haneman wrote: > Hi Thomas, Luke: > > The licensing issue is a real shame, but I don't know of an easy fix > either, especially for the 'Live CD'
I think eventually, an alternative VM that gets chosen by the Ubuntu developers may be the sollution, but I don't know just how far off that is. > However, for the regular Ubuntu distribution I do think that it would be > worthwhile to include the java-access-bridge, and build OpenOffice.org > to include the accessibility support. The java-access-bridge code and > the OO.o accessibility code is LGPL, so the licensing issue would then > be reduced to that of a 'soft' dependency on a non-free JVM - there > would be no non-free code bundled. Ubuntu users would then be able, at > their sole discretion, to independently download and use the Sun JVM in > order to complete their OpenOffice accessibility solution. > > In the absence of a free alternative, I think this would be a defensible > approach, and if other agree, it may be worth lobbying for it with > Debian and/or Ubuntu. Since I work for Sun and wrote much of the > java-access-bridge for Gnome, perhaps a less-interested party should do > the lobbying <smile>. I can certainly look into things from the Ubuntu side, as at this stage, I am simply creating accessibility derivitives, and intend to make such a derivitive come the next release. What you have suggested above is certainly a fine option that can be looked into. Luke _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
