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[Christopher Rose]

Hmm... I will have to check and see if javascript was built into Grey Cat or not. I will let you know soon as I find out. I am still running all my internet and home applications via Red Hat 9. However, I do find Gned somewhat intriguing.

I will get back to you soon.

Pax,

Christopher

----- Original Message -----
From: "N. Thompson" <n.thomp at sasktel.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:41:43 -0600
To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <Christiansource at ofb.biz>
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Adopt a program?

> Christopher Rose wrote:
> 
> >I don't know much about Java, but I might be interested in learning more. Please tell me more about Gned and how it works. I might trying scripting it into my Grey Cat Linux Machine, if it seems like something that I am capable of.
> >
> >Pax,
> >
> >Christopher
> >
> >  
> >
> [snip]
> 
> Gned is my longest surviving Java program, its a simple text editor that 
> unfortunately due to the Java programming language itself requires more 
> system resources then your average similar program written in C or C++ 
> although with the new Java 1.5 runtime environment I runs significantly 
> faster then with Java 1.4. One of my goals was to make the program 
> modular if what I did could qualify as that, I split up the compiled 
> java class files into a few different files for easier updating without 
> having to uninstall and reinstall the entire thing, at first I simply 
> did this so the themes could easily be updated at any time however as 
> time went on I decided to do make it possible to have an almost empty 
> themes jar file to reduce the size (albeit not by much since Java 
> binaries are very compact). The code requires at least Java 1.4 as well 
> as the swing toolkit which comes by default with Sun's implementation to 
> compile and run.
> 
> Some third party components in Gned are GPLed and LGPLed themes from 
> http://www.javootoo.com as well as the KDE crystal icons. I am hoping 
> that whoever decides to continue development in Gned continues to 
> release it under an open source license so I can continue to contribute 
> code and improvements to it every once in a while, if I were to hand it 
> over to someone in this list then I would be a little less protective of 
> the license and copyrights in the hopes that everyone here like the 
> majority of Linux users and people in this list see the value of using 
> an open source license. What I said on my web page about keeping the 
> copyrights for the code was simply to protect from someone trying to 
> change the license to something proprietary after I were to hand it over 
> to them, it shouldn't affect your ability to modify, rewrite or 
> redistribute the software and you can still make money off GPLed 
> software if you so desire, also if you would like the license changed to 
> something other then the GPL that still qualifies as an open source 
> license let me know and assuming the license would still allow for the 
> modification and redistribution of the software by myself and other OSS 
> developers I'd be more then willing to accept.
> 
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