Working on Kaffe/X-AWT port...

Tue Aug 26 16:56:00 GMT 2003

Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Why? My bindings only will create event, font and drawing funktions, the 
> whole painting-process itself is done in java.

If you want to have a consistent look-and-feel as "native
applications", support run-time theme switching (controlled by
the standard Gnome theme manager), integrate properly with window
managers, handle drag-and-drop, access more modern font handlers
than the primitive X fonts, etc etc, then that's a hell of a lot
of Java code, and it's impossible to keep it all consistent with
the native Gnome environment.
> But, as far as I know, LGPL allows linking into commercial code?

Yes, but there are certain requirements on being able to re-link
the commcerial code with the LGPL library. Using shared libraries
has historically been consider an acceptable way to satisfy the
requirement. However, on embedded systems you don't normally
have shared libraries, and re-linking is difficult to support.
So LGPL libraries are unlikely to be acceptable for an
proprietary embedded system.
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