Conflicts with F-Droid policies

[eriknellessen]

I tried to publish one of my apps, that uses jCardSim, on F-Droid, see my merge request here.

As you can read in the merge request, F-Droid can not accept the jCardSim jar file included in my app. That is why I tried to find a way to build jCardSim myself. I then found some tutorial stating that I have to download JCDK first. JCDK includes a license, that is not compliant to the F-Droid policies.

Is there any way to build jCardSim without JCDK? If I understood the building process correctly, the JCDK jar file is included. That is not purely open source, is it? Am I missing something?

Any help on this would be appreciated! :)

[frankmorgner]

To avoid JCDK, you have the option to either include Sun's/Oracle's original code (GPLv2) or to exclude the parts of jCardSim that use JCDK.

[eriknellessen]

Where is Sun's/Oracle's original code from?

[eriknellessen]

Seems like 7e603d4 removed the open source files. Before this commit, jCardSim compiles without JCDK on my machine.

It seems like this is seen as a feature, because you can now link jCardSim against a chosen Java Card API version. But why is the open source solution no longer included? We could have linking against chosen Java Card versions and the open source solution, could'nt we?