| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 23 Apr 2001 at 14:17:12 |
| Subject: | Re: Common misconception (was Re: Voyager Image Decoders) |
hi,
> > GPL schmePL. Zapek has an agreement with Olivier. As for "99%
> > of his work", I think you'll find that it's been ported and modified
> > so much to work on an Amiga and inside the browser (although
> > the plugin is quite capable of being standalone) that there are
> > enough changes to make it 99% Zapek's work.
doesnt matter - its based and uses the GPL code, so it has to go out.
> Haha! Yeah, right! I know Oliviers code pretty well. It's well
> written and would require *no changes* (but the latest versions has
> an 'interesting' endian bug... :) - even if you needed to embed it
> into a browser (in fact it comes with a NS plugin example).
I guess the reason for no source release is because of the 'closed' nature
of the V plugin system?? there again, you just stick stubs and dead
functions into those places with a few comments and then released the
nonclosed stuff (like SUN did with OpenOffice)
> > The Voyager plugin is both more capable AND embedded into a browser,
>
> More capable? How? I agree that it's nice to embed into a browser,
> just a shame it's Voyager :-)
I'd rather have plugins then embedded. that way, when the format changes
you dont have to wait for a browser update.
alan
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