Re: [Javacad-develop] Building JCad

[Shiva M. <shi...@ho...>]

yes. Just JRE is sufficient to build it, unless you are enhancing JCad for 
your purposes.

hmmm... about the licensing and legal things, i dont have a clue. May be 
Wang Tinghao(ba...@gn...), who authored JCad may have some feedback. 
I CC'ed the javacad mailing list too.

Here is the actual license information about JRE1.4 (i guess u must have 
been already at this page 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/j2sdk-1_4_1-doc-license.html).

-Shiva



>From: Terry Hancock <ha...@an...>
>Reply-To: ha...@an...
>To: "Shiva Mantri" <shi...@ho...>
>Subject: Re: [Javacad-develop] Building JCad
>Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:52:59 -0800
>
>On Friday 08 November 2002 05:32 am, Shiva Mantri wrote:
> > Download JRE 1.4.1 from Sun 
>http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html.
> > Its is also free. JCad uses 1.4. It should fix the problem.
>
>Can you actually build it with only JRE, or do you need the
>full JDK?
>
>Sun's JRE is "Non-Free" software coverred by the "Sun Community
>Source License", which is non-Free.  So I was going to try out the
>Free alternatives, but my research leads me to believe you can't
>run Java 1.4 based software on a Free platform (at least not
>yet).  (I didn't know that when I downloaded JCad).
>
>I might want to build it with the Sun JRE and check out what
>it can do, but I wouldn't be able to use it in my project. I wonder
>if there are any parts of the code that don't rely on the later
>JRE features, so that it could perhaps be backported (but I
>suspect that would be hard for a graphics-intensive program).
>
>Anyway, I'll experiment with it, and let you know what I
>find out.
>
>Thanks,
>Terry
>
>--
>Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
>Anansi Spaceworks  http://www.anansispaceworks.com


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