Re: Graphics2D using OpenGL ?

[Artur Biesiadowski]

Brian Jones wrote:
> As this was a research project and is not intended to be supported or
> developed further and is under the MPL 1.1, is it of any use other
> than a proof of concept?

Even as proof of concept it is nice :)

I'm now not telling that we should use this particular library - maybe 
it will be easier to create it from scratch (I do not like dependency on 
jausoft opengl binding for example). But in theory, isn't it possible to 
use it in classpath (outside of contacting people there and asking them 
to assign copyright to FSF) ?

We are using a lot of outside libraries. libc. Used to use libz. Gtk. 
Xerces (in future for sure). Probably there will be a need to use 
freetype if fonts are supposed to have any serious functionality.  Not 
all of them use same kind of license as classpath, so it is solved 
somehow ? I understand that in such case, agile2d would not be 
distributed as part of classpath. But MPL is quite liberal, we can get 
it as separate project, hack in any way we want, exposing all needed 
functions, so it will be a trivial reuse it inside classpath. We would 
just distribute it as .jar inside classpath, instead putting source 
here. MPL allows embedding into commercial applications, so it should be 
not a problem for 'embedded gcc' usage.

Once again - I'm not sure if starting from scratch is not easier, 
especially given the fact that jausoft opengl installation is not 
easiest thing to automate. I'm just asking if it is possible to just 
reuse it as external library.

Artur