Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Martin Steghöfer
Hi Andreas! Andreas Tille wrote: Does anybody honestly think that the vanished author who does not seem to care for his very old code at all will mind about our perfectly theoretical discussion? Very, very likely he won't. But if the fact that the copyright owner won't sue us is the relevant

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Martin Steghöfer
Hi Thorsten! Thorsten Glaser wrote: Can you, or anyone really, give some detail on what exactly is the problem here (which files)? I'm sorry for not having been more specific from the beginning. Given that you had brought up the interface aspect yourself, I thought we were on the same page.

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Martin Steghöfer
Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Martin Steghöfer wrote: the interface issue again. Because no matter how well we replace the implementation, if we can't use the interfaces or have to "cripple" them, we don't have a fix. We can just reimplement them, since we

Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java

2015-02-24 Thread Martin Steghöfer
Hi Thorsten! Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Martin Steghöfer wrote: So is it the official Debian position There cannot be an official Debian position on this, either it’s so or not, based on law ;-) Yes, it's the law, but I doubt that the law mentions Java inter