Re: Web Start

[Glen Mazza]

Peter B. West schrieb:

Fops,

Does anyone have any detailed knowledge of Web Start?  It occurred to 
me that it may be a way to resolve some of the licensing issues we 
(and other projects) are running into.  Any educated thoughts on the 
matter?

Peter
I didn't know about Web Start--looks very interesting [1], but I don't 
see where this would help FOP w.r.t. licensing--we would still be 
redistributing L/GPL and other license-incompatible software, even if 
automated by Web Start, correct?

Glen

[1] http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2001/jw-0706-webstart.html

Re: Web Start

[Peter B. West]

Glen,

I was thinking that with Web Start, we would not need to hold 
contentious files in the FOP repository.  All we need is a reliable 
location for them, with appropriate verification.  Then the process of 
installing FOP can transparently (or with loud warnings) include files 
from non-Apache sources.

Peter

Glen Mazza wrote:
I didn't know about Web Start--looks very interesting [1], but I don't 
see where this would help FOP w.r.t. licensing--we would still be 
redistributing L/GPL and other license-incompatible software, even if 
automated by Web Start, correct?

Glen

[1] http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2001/jw-0706-webstart.html
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