[jsword-devel] Open Source Java

[DM Smith]

On Mar 30, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Manfred Bergmann wrote:

> That's indeed good news.
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> Actually I thought Sun put some or all of their sources under an open
> source license and OpenJDK is a project around these:
> http://openjdk.java.net/

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> Regards,
> Manfred


Yes they did. But only the "unencumbered" parts. So only about 96% was  
put out there. OpenJDK 1.6 can be built but only by including parts  
from Sun. So it is not entirely free. The 96% was probably all the  
more we needed.

IcedTea is RedHat's effort to speed things along. It is meant to be  
replaced with OpenJDK when that is finally released. The difference is  
that IcedTea leaves out encumbered stuff. So far sound and snmp are  
left. But it seems to work just fine. Though I haven't tried every  
aspect of it.

In Him,
	DM


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> Am 29.03.2008 um 23:56 schrieb DM Smith:
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>> Because of our reliance on Sun's Java for BibleDesktop and JSword,  
>> our
>> software has never been truly free. Every few months I try the "free"
>> contenders with disappointment. The problem has always been with the
>> contenders not implementing Java's HTML rendering as we relied upon
>> it. As Richard Stallman calls it, we fell into the "Java Trap" and
>> couldn't get out.
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>> But today is a good day for rejoicing. I just used java-1.7.0-icedtea
>> on Fedora 8 with no problems!
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>> The practical implications of this is that we will some day be able  
>> to
>> ship a light, embedded version of Java that only contains what
>> BibleDesktop needs. For platforms such as the OLPC (One Laptop Per
>> Child) that I noted in an earlier post we can have a reasonably
>> acceptable footprint.
>>
>> Praise God!!!
>>
>> In His Service,
>> 	DM
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