Greetings On 1/25/07, Bjørn Roald <bjorn@4roald.org> wrote:
It's possible to fork Antigrain 2.4 and even boostify it in the process. I'm already quite familiar with it. But I'm not sure there's enough time to do it, let alone maintain and support it. I'm still hoping Maxim changes his mind. I think his motivation is primarily to make a decent living from his
Joel de Guzman wrote: product. This will allow him to continue using his time on what he clearly is talented and skilled at. In itself that is a very good thing. If he is to change his mind about the licensing, as well as how to contribute to the community, I think it is reasonable that those that have ideas (proven by experience), or other means that can convince him, come forward and bring their information to him. Now is the time.
I on occasion follow the Haiku project (http://www.haiku-os.org) which is small (team wise) but ambitious in creating binary compatibility with BeOS, and remember reading about them using AGG and a quick google confirms. Another quick google only gave me one reference to a mention of license change, and it dealt with trying to negotiate with the author, and that was back in October. I have no clue if they have come up with any solution, but if a fork is done, I would hope that you could get some collaboration going on with some of their developers. Ed Page