Posts: 1370 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
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amigadave wrote:
Wouldn't it be more productive and helpful for all users and programmers if the team of MorphOS developers who maintains and adds improvements to MUI for MorphOS would license their work at a small fee for the AROS and AmigaOS3.x & 4.x platforms?
Since MUI is closed source, it would be difficult to share improvements with AROS developers without making pretty much the entire toolkit open source.
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It seems to me that a small license fee for the other platforms to be able to use the same version of MUI would be the best and simplest answer to solve the incompatibilities caused by different forks of MUI.
Hyperion Entertainment´s leading OS developers have expressed on numerous occasions that they strongly dislike MUI. For this very reason, MUI has only been included as an unregistered third-party contribution in their software package.
It does not seem to be particularly likely that these folks would now suddenly be convinced to pay licensing fees for newer versions of this GUI toolkit...
As for AROS, like I wrote above, licensing is a very, very serious issue. There had been discussions to raise funding for making the last official 68k release of MUI open source, which should increase the overall compatibility at least, but the main maintainer of Zune felt that it would be better to focus on improving Zune as-is rather than port existing MUI code, which is an opinion that is maybe worth to be considered.
