Re: More astonishing progress in japi scores

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Sven de Marothy wrote:
> Robert Schuster wrote:
>
> > javax.imageio support would be great. I searched for Java libraries
> > with friendly licenses and this one seemed to be very interesting:
>
>
> > JIU - The Java Imaging Utilities -
> > http://jiu.sourceforge.net/status.html - GPL
>
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think we can use GPL code, since Classpath's
> license is GPL + exception, which is a more permissable license.
> (I.e. you can go GPL+exception-->GPL but not in the other direction.)

I could ask him if he'd like to contribute his code to GNU Classpath. 
GPL is OK for staging it in Kaffe until it's ready for inclusion into 
GNU Classpath if he agrees. The JIU author is doing some really nice 
work on collecting a nice list of VM ports & languages for the JVM, btw.

> But.. on the positive side, there are rumors that Michael Koch has
> finished the imageio framework (but not the plugins).

Michael Koch is being awesome, as usual. ;)

I have just synced up with Classpath's head yesterday, and today he 
continues pushing in new files into the CVS. Thanks, Michael!

On a side note, noone may have actually realized this, but according to 
japitools we're 75% there on java 1.2. *Without* CORBA.

cheers,
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