Re: More astonishing progress in japi scores

[Sven de Marothy]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 12:12, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> 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.

Looking closer, apparently JIU doesn't include a JPEG encoder, but
rather uses imageio.. see this thread:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1108586&forum_id=51534

A LGPL encoder and decoder is part of Kary Främling's JVG package:
http://www.cs.hut.fi/~framling/JVG/

Although the LGPL is still more restrictive than the GPL+exception,
it's not -much- more restrictive. So that might be a good place
to solicit for contributions.

> > 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'll second that.. His commit rate is giving me an inferiority complex.
=)

/Sven