El mié, 25-07-2007 a las 18:35 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen escribió: > [José L. Redrejo Rodríguez] > > I know geogebra and a lot of teachers use it here in > > Extremadura. It's quite powerful and allows you prepare exercises > > that are loaded as applet by the students using the webbrowser. > > Right. So, if you have Debian packages already, it should be fairly > easy to get them into Debian, at least in the contrib archive? Not, they installed it using webstart, but a colleague of mine has begun to work in the package, so I hope it will be ready pretty soon. > > > Geogebra is gpl'ed but I don't know a word about the current java > > policy in Debian, as I guess they are waiting for Sun to change the > > license as they promised. Otherwise, a java expert should see if > > geogebra can be compiled with cgj. Anyway it's a very interesting > > app for teachers for with almost all ages pupils. > > I know about about the status. The license change already happend, > but some parts of the SUN Java package is not released as GPL yet, > because SUN lacked the rights required to change the license. The > Free Java community is working hard at the moment to merge in parts > from the GNU Classpath project with the SUN Java package to get a > completely free Java based on both. This is called the icetea effort, > check out <URL:http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page> for info > on that work. They already got it building, but it is not yet quite > streamlined. I expect them to have working packages in Debian during > this autum. > Ok, those are worse news than what I thought, but better than a year ago. > To me this mean we should just start uploading java packages to > debian/contrib, and get them building properly in Debian to be ready > to move them to debian/main when the sun java packages arrive. Or > perhaps we can build them already with the free java implementation > and just upload them straight into debian/main? Only testing will > show. :) > Ok, I'll sponsor geogebra as soon as it's ready. Regards. José L.
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