Re: State of AWT

[Brian Jones]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann Secq <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Yann> Hi, there has been some talk around the wonka-vm, but I didn't
> Yann> understand were it leads. I've checked their webpages and it is
> Yann> explicitely written that their licence is GPL compatible
> Yann> (http://wonka.acunia.com/licence.html).
> 
> Yann> Isn't it possible to merge their implementation of AWT with
> Yann> Classpath ?
> 
> Yes, it just requires the will and the time to do so.  My
> understanding is that Rudolph (isn't that the name of the Wonka AWT
> implementation?) is a peerless implementation running on a framebuffer
> abstraction.  So parts wouldn't be really applicable -- though ideally
> Classpath could run on framebuffers too, my primary goal is to make it
> work on desktop boxes.

If you did include parts of their code, then those parts and anything
using them would probably fall under the pure GPL instead of our
exception, right?  Assuming that's true, I don't think we'd want to
include said code.

Brian
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Brian Jones <address@hidden>