Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-19 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:40 +, Mr. Demeanour wrote: > > See planet.classpath.org . Many of us are really happy about it, and > > have begun playing around with Sun's code. I believe the fun hack for > > today is making cacao work with Sun's ME libraries, there have been a > > few such thin

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
Mr. Demeanour jackpot.uk.net> writes: > This is interesting: > "Sun is only releasing what will become java 7 [...]" - I suppose that > remains the case? AFAIK Java 5 remains the most popular Java platform > (excluding J2ME, of course). See http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp#b9

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-16 Thread Mr. Demeanour
Dalibor Topic wrote: Mr. Demeanour jackpot.uk.net> writes: I shall be most interested to see comments from the CLASSPATH people about this development. See planet.classpath.org . Many of us are really happy about it, and have begun playing around with Sun's code. I believe the fun hack for t

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-15 Thread Dalibor Topic
Mr. Demeanour jackpot.uk.net> writes: > I shall be most interested to see comments from the CLASSPATH people > about this development. See planet.classpath.org . Many of us are really happy about it, and have begun playing around with Sun's code. I believe the fun hack for today is making cacao

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-14 Thread David Herron
I don't know of this is linked from the openjdk site, but this project exists and at the bottom it mentions GPL. https://javahelp.dev.java.net/ - David Herron On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:23 AM, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Hi It seems like it has not been released as GPL yet. At least not according

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-14 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi It seems like it has not been released as GPL yet. At least not according to the pages at Sun. Regards, // Ola On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:47:57AM +0100, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hi, > > > AIUI, all that is becoming GPL as of today is javac and JavaHelp (and > > does someone know wher

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-14 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, > AIUI, all that is becoming GPL as of today is javac and JavaHelp (and does someone know where one can pull the GPLed version of JavaHelp? Someone already planning to package it? Someone minding if I'll do it? Thanks, Eric -- You don't need to CC me on debian-java, debian-mentors and pkg-

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-13 Thread Marcus Better
Burak Emir wrote: > Would the existing packages be moved to main? Many, perhaps most, of the existing packages in contrib can already be moved to main. It's just a question of migrating them to use GCJ. This is being done slowly, volunteers are welcome to help. Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-13 Thread Burak Emir
pietro ferrari wrote: On 11/13/06, Burak Emir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Java SE (standard edition) comprises a compiler, library, java doc, vm etc., I would speculate. That's what is in the download. no, as it says in the url you sent so far they released the vm, javac and java help. the c

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-13 Thread pietro ferrari
On 11/13/06, Burak Emir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Java SE (standard edition) comprises a compiler, library, java doc, vm etc., I would speculate. That's what is in the download. no, as it says in the url you sent so far they released the vm, javac and java help. the class library will only be

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-13 Thread Burak Emir
Mr. Demeanour wrote: pietro ferrari wrote: from lycos news[0] "Sun said it is making nearly all of Java's source code - excluding small pockets of code that aren't owned by Sun - available under the GNU General Public License." and "All the Java source code is expected to be released by Mar

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-13 Thread Mr. Demeanour
pietro ferrari wrote: from lycos news[0] "Sun said it is making nearly all of Java's source code - excluding small pockets of code that aren't owned by Sun - available under the GNU General Public License." and "All the Java source code is expected to be released by March 2007". AIUI, all th

Re: JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-13 Thread pietro ferrari
from lycos news[0] "Sun said it is making nearly all of Java's source code - excluding small pockets of code that aren't owned by Sun - available under the GNU General Public License." and "All the Java source code is expected to be released by March 2007". so i guess we will have to wait untill m

JDK is GPL now! a package in main requested

2006-11-13 Thread Burak Emir
Hello dear debian-java list members, After hearing the good news that Sun GPLs its jdk today, when can we expect a package in main? Would it replace the sun-java5-jdk and sun-java5-bin packages in non- free? Would the existing packages be moved to main? I guess this would depend on Java