Re: [Classpathx-discuss] More Java Extensions

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 12:41, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> > Andrew John Hughes <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hi all,
> >>    I don't know if anyone here has heard about the recent release of Sun's
> >>Project Looking Glass under the GPL.  Its no doubt a good sign to see
> >>Sun releasing this interesting project under a true Free Software
> >>license.  However, the Java code still depends on a couple of Java
> >>extensions, namely Java 3D and Java Advanced Imaging.  I was wondering
> >>if anyone knew about the possibility or the existence of an effort to
> >>create Free Software implementations of these libraries?  Having these
> >>would mean that Project Looking Glass would be more likely to run on a
> >>Free platform.  At present, it is tied to proprietary Sun licenses, even
> >>if the main code is under the GPL.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure but maybe some developpers on classpath project already
> > work on this.
> > 
> 
> There is a free vecmath implementation, Bryan posted a link to it a few 
> days ago, when the Java3d subject came up for the first time. There is 
> no free software implementation of the Java3d apis, afaik. I doint't 
> think there is a free implementation of JAI, yet, either. If you're 
> looking for a nice project ... go for it :)
> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic

I've only just subscribed to classpathx, so I missed that thread -- I'll
browse the archives for it.  I'll give this until after next week (for
which I'm away for most of) to circulate, and then hopefully crack on
with doing this if its still viable.  I'm particularly concerned as to
any legal issues anyone knows about concerning this -- is there any
reason why this couldn't be attempted on these grounds?  On a lighter
note, any suggestions for running such a project? :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Andrew :-)
 
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