Re: [g-a-devel] Re: Gnopernicus on a Live CD?

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Thomas, Luke:

The licensing issue is a real shame, but I don't know of an easy fix 
either, especially for the 'Live CD'

However, for the regular Ubuntu distribution I do think that it would be 
worthwhile to include the java-access-bridge, and build OpenOffice.org 
to include the accessibility support.  The java-access-bridge code and 
the OO.o accessibility code is LGPL, so the licensing issue would then 
be reduced to that of a 'soft' dependency on a non-free JVM - there 
would be no non-free code bundled.  Ubuntu users would then be able, at 
their sole discretion, to independently download and use the Sun JVM in 
order to complete their OpenOffice accessibility solution.

In the absence of a free alternative, I think this would be a defensible 
approach, and if other agree, it may be worth lobbying for it with 
Debian and/or Ubuntu.  Since I work for Sun and wrote much of the 
java-access-bridge for Gnome, perhaps a less-interested party should do 
the lobbying <smile>.

regards

Bill

Thomas Ward wrote:

> Hi,
> While I think everyone can agree adding a Java VM and java access bridge
> would be a good thing there are licensing issues that would have to be
> resolved first.
>
>