Re: Renesis SVG Player Licensing thoughts

Hi Alexander,
I may be out of date on this, but wasn't Qt's licensing something like 
free on Linux, paid on Windows? If you're moving to an open source 
license on all platforms for all developers (without a distinction 
between commercial and non-commercial development) then I'm sure you'd 
find a lot of interest from developers on projects with compatible 
licenses who need better SVG support.

It wouldn't be much direct benefit to the major rendering engines in 
browsers but there are plenty of other GPL/LGPL projects that it would 
help.

You may not be able to get a real gauge of how many contributors you'll 
have until you make the project available. I can't offer my time to the 
project in good conscience, knowing how many other commitments I 
currently have. Still, once the project is out there, it's always 
possible I could fix a bug here and there. I'm sure a lot of other 
people feel the same way. Conversely, you could get a lot of people 
agreeing to help in theory but changing their mind once they see the 
code or get pulled off on to some other project.

The only way to know for sure is to put it out there. Hope to see it happen.

Regards,
Rob Russell
rob@latenightpc.com
http://www.latenightpc.com/blog

On 18/12/2009 4:05 AM, Alexander Adam wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> This is actually more or less an open letter to the community. Examotion is
> currently evaluating the possibility of making the next major release of
> Renesis (V3) which is a completely rewrite, open source under either a GPL
> or LGPL licensing model with commercial support available if required. This
> model would be quite similar to what Nokia's (formerly Trolltech's) Qt does.
>
> At this point however, we're looking for feedback to whether there's enough
> interest for such an undertaking and more important, whether there're any
> volunteers wanting to join and help in establishing the Renesis Player as a
> fully compatible, free SVG Player including the Windows Thumbnail Plugin, a
> Qt Plugin and an IE Plugin as of now.
>
> Looking forward to hear from you,
>
> mfG / Regards,
> Alexander Adam
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