On 25/03/10 00:11, Greg Troxel wrote:

> The great irony is that the complaints about Apple not supplying Java
> 1.6 should really be directed at JOSM's use of a non-Free language
> implementation.  The real bug is that JOSM is dependent on a non-Free
> JDK, instead of relying on a widely portable implementation available
> under an open source license.  In other words (to be inflammatory) the
> JOSM community is willfully chained to a non-Free language
> implementation.
>
> (Yes, I know about openjdk, and I've tried to run josm and mkgmap under
> it on NetBSD/i386.  So far I'm not having a successful experience.)

I've been running JOSM under OpenJDK on linux for a considerable period 
now with no problems at all.

Tom

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http://compton.nu/

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