[Bug 462521] Review Request: simplyhtml - Application and a java component for rich text processing

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--- Comment #8 from John Guthrie <guthrie at counterexample.org>  2009-02-09 17:33:41 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> I asked on fedora-devel-java-list about the com.sun.* classes, and
> unfortunately, it looks like since the license of these files includes
>     * You acknowledge that this software is not designed, licensed or intended
>     * for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any
>     * nuclear facility.
> they can't be used in Fedora. Here's the mailing list thread:
>    
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2009-February/msg00008.html
> 
> For the ExampleFileFilter, it doesn't look like it would be too difficult to
> patch the code to use the javax.swing.filechooser.FileNameExtensionFilter that
> was introduced in JDK 1.6 and that provides similar functionality.
> 
> For the ElementTreePanel, I'm not sure if there's an alternative
> implementation, but I haven't looked too hard. In the worst case, I guess you
> could patch out the use of the ElementTreePanel entirely, and then there would
> be some functionality missing from simplyhtml.

I'm sitting here chuckling to myself a little bit because I saw that clause,
and I actually thought to myself,  "Yeah, I can understand why someone might
want to keep Java code out of a nuclear facility.  <sarcasm>Mmmmm... Java code
and nuclear power plants.  Two tastes that go great together.</sarcasm>"  I can
also understand now why this might be a bad thing from Fedora's point of view.

Thanks for the pointer on FileNameExtensionFilter.  I'll see what I can do with
that for now.

I'll also have to keep that "no nukes" clause in mind as well. ;-)

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