Java IDE from IBM released under OSI approved license
IBM have released Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) under the "Common Public
License". Eclipse is (among other things) what will become the base for
their successor to the (IMO excellent) "Visual Age for Java" IDE. It is
written in Java, and requires "an 1.3 level Java runtime environment"
to run. More information is available at "http://www.eclipse.org";, or
see what IBM writes at
"http://www.developer.ibm.com/welcome/wstools/wswb_eclipse.html";.
I'd appreciate very much if someone could package this up for Debian. I
don't know enough about either Eclipse or Debian's policy to say whether
that is at all possible or not, but at least there are no obvious (to
me) problems.
As a side note, Eclipse comes with its own widget set "SWT" which is
also under the CPL (note the "C" as in "Common"). IMRUO* it could be
useful to package SWT separately.
Cheers //Johan
* In My Rather Uninformed Opinion ;-)
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