Re: Aren't we getting a little ahead of ourselves?

["Jeremy H. Griffith" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:07:16 -0700, "Abbas Zaidi" <abuzz@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

>I gotta lobby to get non-Win mif2Go rights/code released into the
>Open Source community so that Mac (not to mention *nix) versions 
>can be developed..    

That's a very interesting idea, Abbas!  So far we've offered a
royalty-sharing deal to any Mac FDK **expert** willing to port
to Mac OS X (or earlier, for Frame compatibility), but have not
found anyone who is both qualified and willing.  Maybe we could
open-source our code for Mac and UNIX, under the GPL, instead.
Any developers who would like to work on a port under those
conditions should contact us...  In that case, we'd probably
make the program download free, and offer support at $99/year,
something the people who did the C++ ports could also do, with
our blessings.  ;-)

We're not sure if it's legal to open-source our FDK code, which 
is dependent on Adobe's libraries; those are free, but seem to
have a rather restrictive license attached to them.  We do have
the Mac and UNIX FDKs on hand from back when Adobe had them on
their site... but the port is not trivial, especially since we
had to step around the FDK and use WinAPI in several places...
Are there any open-source FM plugins now?  I know there are
free ones, but that's a different issue... especially with
Adobe's (withdrawn?) Mac FDK code in the mix.

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy@xxxxxxxxx>  http://www.omsys.com/

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