On Saturday 13 November 2010 11:23:20 Nagarjuna G wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:18 AM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Apache-Brokeback-J > >CP-I-Wish-I-Knew-How-to-Quit-You-138152/ > > > > We always never touched anything (at least since 2001) that was > > not clearly community driven and with a freesoftware licence. > > > > I however now find myself in a rather strange position of having > > to use JAVA or something similiar for a particular project. > > how free is openjdk? at gnowledge lab we are using two of the > educational packages that run on openjdk, geogebra and freemind?
OpenJDK has/had some closed parts. Hence it is supposed to be replaced with OpenJDK + IcedTea. This combo is supposed to be ok. As per the discussion below, it specifically addresses the binary parts and the of OpenJDK http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/Sun-OpenJDK-Debian--ftopict462456.html In particular the "Assembly Exception". http://openjdk.java.net/legal/assembly-exception.html Checking out OpenJDK + IcedTea details. Available on lenny. Any hints on toolkits? I also found pyjamas (http://www.pyjs.org) interesting. Especially since this would work on my embedded targets. > -- > GN -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
