Sun just released the JDK under the GPL implications for F8 / F9?
Tom Tromey
tromey at redhat.com
Wed May 9 14:16:27 UTC 2007
>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> writes:
>> Which Fedora release this ships in depends on how quickly the
>> encumbrances can be lifted.
Bill> Is it a matter of lifting the encumberances, or just re-implementing
Bill> said parts (and what are those parts?)
Re-implementing -- and to be clear, everybody, including Sun, wants to
do this. The binary blobs are a temporary measure.
The bits I know about are some color management things (Roman has
already successfully dropped in the Classpath impl -- but this too is
not a permanent fix), parts of the Java 2D rendering pipeline, and
some the font rasterizer. This is just what they mentioned on stage,
I haven't dug into the sources to see more details.
Tom
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