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Re: Java 3D released!
Bryce McKinlay wrote:
Ray Auge wrote:
Anyone read this news. (Sun realeased Java 3D)
http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=45421
Any ideas on the topic of possible inclusion of this to the libs
Unfortunately only a few parts of Java 3D were released under a free
license. The core javax.media.j3d and javax.vecmath packages are only
available under the JDL/JRL licenses which are non-free, I presume.
However, the example programs and com.sun.j3d.* packages were released
under BSD license, so we could perhaps consider using those if they
proved to be useful.
Note that there is already a free implementation of javax.vecmath:
http://www.objectclub.jp/download/vecmath_e
And the rest of the world seems to have moved to Xith3d. [1]
In any case, releasing the core utils [2], and the examples [3] under
BSD is very nice of Sun. That doesn't mean that Java3D is now
open-source, as the ever eager Sun marketing machinery [4] is trying to
tell people [5], [6].
And releasing the other stuff under LGPL is very nice, too. As well as
putting Looking Glass under GPL.
cheers,
dalibor topic
[1] http://www.xith.org/tiki-index.php
[2] https://j3d-core-utils.dev.java.net/
[3] https://j3d-examples.dev.java.net/
[4] Java 1.5 is dead! Long live Java 5! Or Java 5.0! Or whatever it is
called today!
[5]http://today.java.net/jag/page9.html#78
[6] http://www.java.net/pub/wlg/1543