On 2010-06-29 21:08, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : bluej > Version : 3.0.0 > Upstream Author : Michael Kölling and many others > * URL : http://bluej.org/download/files/bluej-300.deb > * License : GNU GPL 2.0 > Description : Integrated Java Environment for introductory teaching > > > "BlueJ is an integrated Java environment specifically designed for > introductory teaching. > > BlueJ was developed at a University specifically for the purpose of teaching > object orientation with Java. > > BlueJ is free!" (from their home page). > > Recently, version 3.0 was released, and license was switched to GPL! > > The author provides a debian package on his home page, but it has to be > checked > if this package follows official policy. > > I have been used BlueJ for years, in many German schools it is kind of > compulsary. > > >
Hi I had a quick look at it and the GPL is good news, however ... icons/license.txt: Copyright (c) for all BlueJ icons: Michael Kolling. Reproduction of the logos is permitted for non-commercial purposes. Use of the logo for commercial purposes or on items commercially sold is explicitly prohibited without written license. - cannot go into Debian main. Discriminates commercial use and does (as far as I can tell) allow modifications. See the Debian Free Software Guidelines[1]. It depends on "junit" (not sure what version), svnkit (+ javahl), netbeans cvs client and possibly also some thing called "trilead". Other than the junit, I am not sure of the status of those dependencies. For anyone interested in working on this: upstreams bug tracker at [2] and the source is available from [3]. I have been unable to locate a public VCS for this project. Also according to [4], BlueJ does not run with gij/gcj, so it will not be available under some architectures (e.g. the kfreebsd ones). ~Niels NB: I have not done a complete check of the source files in the source zip to see if there some files under a different license than GPL and the icon license (except for the third party libraries). So there may be other problems. [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines [2] http://bugs.bluej.org/trac/bluej/wiki [3] http://www.bluej.org/download/source-download.html [4] http://www.bluej.org/download/install.html see "Unix:" paragraph 1.
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