[Building Sakai] Base64 encoding/decoding, commons-codec 1.4, and K1

[Mark Norton]

Seth Theriault wrote:
> While these classes still exist in K1, K1 itself should have no 
> dependency on them as of r66384:
>   
This doesn't quite make sense to me, Seth.  Doesn't their existence 
encourage future dependencies? Is it just a matter of bundling it so 
that applications can use a single Base64 encoding scheme, but the 
kernel doesn't actually use it?

- Mark