Re: Can RedHat buy the old Swing from AOL for gcj ?

[Andrey Andreev <andreev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Freddy BL wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have red, that RedHat have buyd the Netscape Enterprise Services from 
> AOL.
[snip]
> So, is it possible, to buy the rights of the old Swing from AOL?
> Because I think, that the old Swing-implementation is still _a lot_ of 
> better then the actual implementation of the GNU Classpath Swing.

I do not want to start a flamewar here, but Swing is nice but slow. And 
I don't think the "old Swing" would really be all that great, given its 
age, I'm doubtful it would be compatible with anything. I was thinking, 
is not the SWT from IBM free (as in source)? I couldn't find the license 
(didn't look too hard), and I don't really read lawyer-speak very well, 
so I'm hoping someone here saves me some digging, if they already know. :)

//Andro

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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science