Re: Licensing issues (Java/OpenGL-based graphics package for octave)

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Apr-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| Quite difficult to answer... Here's more or less how it works:
| - the java interface is linked against Octave (of course)
| - the java interface is not linked against with JRE, but loads it
| (jvm.dll) dynamically (like a "dlopen")

For the GPL, that counts as linking.

| - the JVM loads the Java classes (bytecode) on-demand, including JOGL
| It's unclear to me how this impacts Octave from a license point of view.

JOGL is just JAVA bytecodes?  Somehow it calls OpenGL functions, which
are defined in a C library, correct?

But anyway, I now think the JOGL license is not a problem.

jwe