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Friday September 28, 2007
Clearing Encumbrances
As you
know
we have some encumbrances with OpenJDK. There has been some
confusion about this so let me restate that Sun has released all
the source code for OpenJDK under the GPL that we can.
As a result we make some
binary plugs
available so that you can build OpenJDK.
Nevertheless it is our hope to get to
100% Free and
100% Java Compatible
as soon as possible.
I'd like to give you a brief update on progress on our
OpenJDK projects to clear the outstanding encumbrances.
Igor announced our use of FreeType to close the font rasterizer encumbrance. Work to improve this implementation is ongoing.
Alex announced an abstraction layer to facilitate the clearing of the JavaSound encumbrance. Work continues to get implementations of Software synthesizer and OSS mixer.
Yesterday Brad announced that Crypto has been added to OpenJDK!
We are hoping to have some news on the graphics rasterizer RSN.
I'll give you more updates as I learn about them. Thanks for helping us on the path to 100% + 100%!
Posted by tmarble ( Sep 28 2007, 01:11:08 PM CDT ) Permalink Comments [2]