Re: [Gnome-print] Re: Gnome printing issues

[Chema Celorio <chema celorio com>]

hamzy@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> > Java beeing used inside. I know the parser is written in java, and
> > if the database is replaced/merged they migth be able to drop
> > this dependency. As I said, we need to investigate further.
> 
> Java is not used as a database.  It is used to generate printer driver
> code from the database entries.  I would like to understand why Java
> cannot be used.
> I dont want to start a language war. ;)  I happen to use both.
>
> Because one uses Java, it is not free?
>

The problem is not Java itself, the problem is that OMNI requires
IBM-Java-SDK, which is non-free.