Re: More astonishing progress in japi scores

[Michael Koch]

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Am Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004 18:25 schrieb 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=5
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>
> 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. =)

Note that I wrote most of this code over a year ago. I just never 
commited it. Now I go through it again and need to hammer my head 
onto my desk all the time. Never look at code you wrote more then 12 
month ago ...


Michael
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