[Live-demo] Re: gvsig packaging

Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas jsanz at osgeo.org
Wed Jan 26 08:54:16 PST 2011


El 26/01/2011 5:57, Hamish escribió:
> Jorge  wrote:
>>> * No more using Sun JRE but OpenJDK 1.6
>
> Cameron wrote:
>> As far as I'm aware, all applications on OSGeo-Live use the
>> Sun JRE and we have removed (or we should remove) OpenJDK in
>> order to save space.
>
> in the last release it was removed to save space. (? 75-100mb ?)
>
>> Rather than switching to OpenJDK, can you just note in the
>> status spreadsheet that your application can run with
>> OpenJDK. Once all applications can use OpenJDK, we can then
>> move all applications across.
>
> IMO we should be gently nudging projects to work with the OpenJDK,
> and as a standard testing platform which will end up in the hands
> of the "right" developers are in a position to apply some light encouragement. :)  At the same time as long as everything's
> legal to redistribute I'm not going to lecture folks and tell
> them what to do on moral grounds. If they have their hearts and
> time set on one bit of software or license that's their business.
>
>
> Java has some serious Industry momentum which should stop Oracle
> from doing anything too nuts with it, but the future is rather
> uncertain, and as it is, our ability to redistribute is clinging
> to a single exemption phrase in an additional clause, which I
> don't feel comfortable personally endorsing without consulting a
> lawyer. My concern is that with the stroke of a 3rd party's pen
> we're going to be left in a situation where we can't distribute
> JAI, or perhaps even the JVM, and all of our great GeoJava
> packages which aren't fully OpenJDK compatible suddenly become
> non-functional. I've got no idea if that will ever happen, but
> if it did that would suck and so OpenJDK if nothing else is an
> insurance policy. (plus the "right thing to do", if you are
> motivated by the Libre side of things)
>

I was happy to be able to bring here a gvSIG package that don't depends 
on Oracle JVM as it works well on OpenJDK.. but I'm ok if not everyone 
is ready for that change and we have to save space and use Oracle one, 
of course.

Regarding JAI, well we are including jai_core.jar at our installation as 
1.x gvSIG still needs to have it to run as a dependency of an old code 
that in fact is not being used because we are using a newer code as a 
plugin to override it.

gvSIG 2.0 won't need JAI any more (I guess).

>
>>> * Removed non-free libraries for ECW or MrSID loading
>
> I'll admit to falling behind with their status: is it a situation
> of license compatibility, patents in certain parts of the world,
> or just "all downloads will come from the company" redistribution
> type thing? are these the gdal plugins or java specific libraries?
>

Well the story is that this gvSIG package was made for a customer that 
wanted that non-free libraries to be removed to include gvSIG in their 
linux distribution repositories.

The official versions of gvSIG are shipped with them at this time I'm 
afraid. I hope someday we will have them removed from standard 
distribution, but offering an easy way to add them for the users that 
need to be able to read that formats.

I really want to see free software JPEG2000 drivers and adoption of free 
formats to get rid off those privative formats... as with DWG and FGDB


-- 
Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
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