Friday August 15, 2008 Java ME Light-Weight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) is open sourced
Here's an article on how we've launched the open source project for the Light-Weight UI Toolkit (LWUIT - pronounced LOO-it). See: Here's a quote: "This software will also help address the mobile industry's fragmentation issue by enabling developers to create a single interface that will work anywhere Java is found."That's cool. Something you can run today on the Java ME cell phone in your pocket, not on a "real-soon-now" phone, rumored to be launching sometime in the future. ;-) A bird in the hand is worth two vapor phones. |
Hinkmond
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Theme originally based on design by Bryan Bell
Correct me if I'm wrong but since this is a library not available by default on MIDP platforms that you would need to include it within your JAR. Thus the following terms of the GPLv2 take effect:
"But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it."
And it follows that any MIDlet which incorporates any or all LWUIT code must be licensed under the GPLv2 at a minimum.
Posted by Ken Walker on August 22, 2008 at 08:38 AM PDT #
Hmm, sorry, the web page for the project shows two licenses. At the top in the overview it only lists GPLv2 but further down it lists GPLv2 plus classpath exception which negates my comment above.
Posted by Ken Walker on August 22, 2008 at 08:48 AM PDT #
Hi Ken,
Yes, that could be a little clearer on the Web page. The actual license for LWUIT code is GPLv2 plus ClassPath exception (bottom reference on the Web page), so it should be OK to have the LWUIT library be incorporated into your MIDlet JAR file without exposing it to the GPLv2 rules.
Thanks,
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on August 22, 2008 at 06:26 PM PDT #