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

[Luke Yelavich <linuxaccess themuso com>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:14:50PM EST, Bill Haneman wrote:
> 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'

I think eventually, an alternative VM that gets chosen by the Ubuntu 
developers may be the sollution, but I don't know just how far off that 
is.

> 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>.

I can certainly look into things from the Ubuntu side, as at this stage, 
I am simply creating accessibility derivitives, and intend to make such 
a derivitive come the next release. What you have suggested above is 
certainly a fine option that can be looked into.

Luke