El 26/01/2011 5:57, Hamish escribió:
Jorge wrote:
* No more using Sun JRE but OpenJDK 1.6
Cameron wrote:
As far as I'm aware, all applications on OSGeo-Live use the
Sun JRE and we have removed (or we should remove) OpenJDK in
order to save space.
in the last release it was removed to save space. (? 75-100mb ?)
Rather than switching to OpenJDK, can you just note in the
status spreadsheet that your application can run with
OpenJDK. Once all applications can use OpenJDK, we can then
move all applications across.
IMO we should be gently nudging projects to work with the OpenJDK,
and as a standard testing platform which will end up in the hands
of the "right" developers are in a position to apply some light encouragement.
:) At the same time as long as everything's
legal to redistribute I'm not going to lecture folks and tell
them what to do on moral grounds. If they have their hearts and
time set on one bit of software or license that's their business.
Java has some serious Industry momentum which should stop Oracle
from doing anything too nuts with it, but the future is rather
uncertain, and as it is, our ability to redistribute is clinging
to a single exemption phrase in an additional clause, which I
don't feel comfortable personally endorsing without consulting a
lawyer. My concern is that with the stroke of a 3rd party's pen
we're going to be left in a situation where we can't distribute
JAI, or perhaps even the JVM, and all of our great GeoJava
packages which aren't fully OpenJDK compatible suddenly become
non-functional. I've got no idea if that will ever happen, but
if it did that would suck and so OpenJDK if nothing else is an
insurance policy. (plus the "right thing to do", if you are
motivated by the Libre side of things)
I was happy to be able to bring here a gvSIG package that don't depends
on Oracle JVM as it works well on OpenJDK.. but I'm ok if not everyone
is ready for that change and we have to save space and use Oracle one,
of course.
Regarding JAI, well we are including jai_core.jar at our installation as
1.x gvSIG still needs to have it to run as a dependency of an old code
that in fact is not being used because we are using a newer code as a
plugin to override it.
gvSIG 2.0 won't need JAI any more (I guess).
* Removed non-free libraries for ECW or MrSID loading
I'll admit to falling behind with their status: is it a situation
of license compatibility, patents in certain parts of the world,
or just "all downloads will come from the company" redistribution
type thing? are these the gdal plugins or java specific libraries?
Well the story is that this gvSIG package was made for a customer that
wanted that non-free libraries to be removed to include gvSIG in their
linux distribution repositories.
The official versions of gvSIG are shipped with them at this time I'm
afraid. I hope someday we will have them removed from standard
distribution, but offering an easy way to add them for the users that
need to be able to read that formats.
I really want to see free software JPEG2000 drivers and adoption of free
formats to get rid off those privative formats... as with DWG and FGDB
--
Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
http://es.osgeo.org
http://jorgesanz.net
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