Hi Sabahattin. When you sent the message to us originally, it eventually ended up with me, and it most certainly has not been forgotten.
I appreciate the very detailed way that you've outlined this issue and there is no doubt in my mind that we must take some specific actions in order to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the LGPL. As will soon become apparent, the last few months have been extremely busy, but we must put this issue right. What we'll be doing shortly is making the source of X-Base as we've modified it available for public download from our web site, with changes clarified in the appropriate manner. There's actually little we had to do to it, other than fix a memory leak issue and employ some buffering techniques that we found speed the system up. We're happy, and indeed legally bound in the spirit of open source, to contribute these changes to the community of X-Base developers. We will also find an appropriate place for the LGPL documentation and ensure that it is included in the next version of KeySoft. But I would expect we can get the source uploaded there quite soon. Regarding your more general comments about open source, this is a very interesting philosophical discussion. I agree with your general sentiment that the platform must be opened up and we intend to do that. I'm not sure that I agree that making KeySoft itself open source is the best approach. But there are other ways of achieving similar objectives which I think fit better with the market we're serving and guarantee some consistency of user experience that helps when offering technical support. I appreciate the message and please feel free to drop me a private message if you want to kick around the pros and cons of the open source approach. Jonathan Mosen BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager Pulse Data International Ltd DDI: +64-3-373-6192 Fax: +64-3-384 4933 Mobile: +64-21 466 736 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: www.pulsedata.com
