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[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Jacksum - savannah.nongnu.org
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Mathieu Roy |
Subject: |
[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Jacksum - savannah.nongnu.org |
Date: |
17 Feb 2003 10:25:51 +0100 |
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address@hidden said:
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> Johann Nepomuk Loefflmann <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: Jacksum
> System name: jacksum
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> Jacksum is a free checksum utility entirely written in Java. It supports most
> common checksum algorithms (Adler32, BSD sum, POSIX cksum, CRC-16, CRC-32,
> MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, SHA-1, Unix System V sum and
> Whirlpool).
>
> \"Jacksum\" is a synthetic word made of JAva and ChecKSUM, the program
> is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.
>
> Download the latest version (source code is included):
> http://www.jonelo.de/java/jacksum/index.html#Download
>
> Other Software Required:
> Jacksum is 100% Java and it has only a command line interface, therefore
> you will be able to compile Jacksum with gcj and you will be able
> to run Jacksum with the free Kaffe Java VM without any problems. Jacksum uses
> classes from the free GNU crypto project.
>
> Other Comments:
> See also http://www.gnu.org/directory/jacksum.html
>
> Just a question for the future:
> You said, that Swing could be a problem, because currently
> there is no free implementations of it.
> Well, I\'m planning to implement a Swing GUI for Jacksum. The GUI will be
> complete independent of Jacksum, Jacksum will be complete independent of the
> GUI, but my question is: it is possible to host also the Swing-GUI for
> Jacksum at savannah?
As long as it's not possible to use it with free (as in freedom)
software only, no.
--
Mathieu Roy
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