[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Jacksum - savannah.nongnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

address@hidden said:

> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Johann Nepomuk Loefflmann <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Jacksum
> System name: jacksum
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> Jacksum is a free checksum utility entirely written in Java. It supports most 
> common checksum algorithms (Adler32, BSD sum, POSIX cksum, CRC-16, CRC-32, 
> MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, SHA-1, Unix System V sum and 
> Whirlpool).
> 
> \"Jacksum\" is a synthetic word made of JAva and ChecKSUM, the program 
> is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.
> 
> Download the latest version (source code is included):
> http://www.jonelo.de/java/jacksum/index.html#Download
> 
> Other Software Required:
> Jacksum is 100% Java and it has only a command line interface, therefore
> you will be able to compile Jacksum with gcj and you will be able
> to run Jacksum with the free Kaffe Java VM without any problems. Jacksum uses 
> classes from the free GNU crypto project.
> 
> Other Comments:
> See also http://www.gnu.org/directory/jacksum.html
> 
> Just a question for the future:
> You said, that Swing could be a problem, because currently 
> there is no free implementations of it. 
> Well, I\'m planning to implement a Swing GUI for Jacksum. The GUI will be 
> complete independent of Jacksum, Jacksum will be complete independent of the 
> GUI, but my question is: it is possible to host also the Swing-GUI for 
> Jacksum at savannah?

As long as it's not possible to use it with free (as in freedom)
software only, no.



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Mathieu Roy
 
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