[Openstreetmap] Re: Satellite images for offline use?

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:14:39AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Did you try to contact the authors of gvSIG and ask if they could port
> the software to one of the free Java VM implementations, and the

I haven't contacted gvSIG authors yet since I was hoping there would
be a better solution. Are you sure that gvSIG does not also depend on
some java version of "ECW SDK" too? 

Since the simplest option would be to just make "ECW SDK" free I
contacted Steve Halasz who filed the "Intend to Package" (ITP) request
for libecw in debian to ask whether he has contacted the "ECW SDK"
authors about the license problems. The original ITP request is at

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=293346

> classpath developers if they are interested in implementing
> com.sun.java.swing.SwingUtilities2?

classpath people most likely are not eager to implement com.sun.*
simply because afaik there is no documentation for it that they could
use.

> I hope the Java GIS tools will start to work with free Java soon.
> Both OpenJUMP and JOSM would be nice to have running without the
> license issues of the Java VM from SUN. :)

If it really turns out that gvSIG is the only free implementation I'll
certainly take a look at fixing it to not use com.sun.*.

Oh, and hey, are you "pere" from freenode? I remember when you asked
about the openstreetmaps applet on #classpath a year ago.

best regards,
Timo Lindfors
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