Re: Can it depend on this commercial lib?
Hi Christoph,
I also looked here
https://support.quest.com/Search/ProductInformation.aspx?dsNav=Ns:P_DateLastModifiedSortable|101|-1|,Nea:True,N:268438638-4294962718&Dt=JClass
and it does not look good. I suggest to spare the energy of packaging
openastexviewer for the time being. For protein/ligand visualisation,
BALLView.org ist excellent and we have others, too. Please talk to the
upstreams of OpenAstexView and BALLView to find out how to proceed.
Best,
Steffen
On 11/14/2011 10:51 AM, Dr. med. Christoph Gille wrote:
> I was trying to make a Debian package for http://openastexviewer.net/web/
> but had the following problem:
>
> It contains parts of a commercial library bwt:
> http://sciencedesk.arc.nasa.gov/jclass/bwt-doc/faq_bwt.html
> http://www.quest.com/
>
>
> For example the OpenAstex package contains the file
> jclass/bwt/StringCaseEditor.class
> but there is no source file StringCaseEditor.java.
>
> Applications are allowed to include the bytecode of bwt. Citation from the FAQ:
>
> DISTRIBUTING APPLICATIONS: Can I build applications with BWT and
> distribute them freely?
>
> Yes, all JClass products may be distributed royalty-free when
> they are part of your application. If you wish to bundle BWT
> controls with a development environment, contact KL Group for
> details of reseller and OEM programs.
>
>
> I checked whether the included bytecode is readable or not. The
> bytecode is human readable and not encrypted. Nevertheless, Java
> bytecode is hard to read because it consists of low level
> instructions. So it is not like a normal source code file.
>
>
> There is no such debian package bwt in nonfree or main.
>
> What would you suggest,
> how should I proceed?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
> Christoph
>
>
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