Hello 2010/4/30 Julien Moutte <[email protected]>: > Hi Everyone, > Currently the Diesel engine is proprietary but will be shipped for free (at > no cost) in Moovida 2.0 and people will be free to redistribute the > application around.
Oh, these aren't good news. By what you say I guess Diesel engine only supports x86 based platforms > We are also intending to let people use the engine to develop their own > applications and games with as little restrictions as possible. > We will probably license the artwork with Creative Commons licenses and give > access to the LUA code with some OSS approved license. > Understand us well here, our goal is really to open it up as much as > possible but : > 1) We are not sure that people will actually contribute much to the Diesel > engine but probably more in the UI part as we will provide free tools such > as game level editors etc... > 2) If people are interested in helping us porting the Diesel engine to > platforms, we are willing to discuss that with them and see how we can > arrange it. How ? There will be a port for ARM devices in future ? > I am very happy about the move we are doing on Moovida 2.0. The > collaboration with the Banshee community is already quite productive and we > are making great progress now that we can focus a lot more on the experience > with so little limits on the graphical capabilities. > Regarding test builds of Moovida 2.0, we don't want to confuse our user base > with a deceptive product. So we won't replace Moovida 1.0.9 with the new > version until it has the same feature set (on the Media Center front). If > you are interested though we could put a page for beta testers where we > start publishing our Windows, Mac OX, Linux builds (without 3D at first and > then with it). > Go Moovida ! > Julien Moutte, > FLUENDO S.A. > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Olivier Tilloy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear Moovida 2.0 developers, >> >> Question 5 of the FAQ and its corresponding answer are quite unclear to >> me. >> >> > Will the Diesel Engine become open source instead of being free? >> > The Diesel Engine we use is proprietary, which is why it will not >> > be available as open source. >> >> What's the meaning of "free" in this context? My interpretation of this >> entry is: >> >> Q: "Will this proprietary engine become open source?" >> A: "It won't be open source because it is proprietary." >> >> I fail to see the explanation here. Could you clarify or rephrase the >> entry? >> >> On the other hand, if I remember correctly my time at Fluendo Embedded, >> Moovida's CEO explained that the company had acquired the rights to the >> Diesel engine and would therefore work to open-source it, which sounded >> like a fantastic gift to the community. I understand this won't happen, >> why such a turnaround? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Olivier >> >> >> Vanessa Obree a écrit : >> > Dear Moovida developers, >> > >> > Here is the latest on Moovida 2.0: >> > >> > http://www.moovida.com/blog/2010/04/30/moovida-2-0-a-new-beginning/ >> > >> > Please don't hesitate to contact us for questions or comments. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Vanessa > >
