Hi Francesco, Thanks for the links and your helpful offer. Much as I like open source in general, in order for the model to work it needs either (a) the original programmer to remain closely involved, or (b) a generic enough utility that a group of talented programmers will take it over. Radiance definitely falls into the (a) category, and I suspect Photosphere is similar. I probably will free the code at some point, but if I target compensation for the time and money I've sunk into it, we'll never get there. No, I fully expect my eventual decision to be an arbitrary one.
Meanwhile, if you help me port it to Linux, I'll be happy to funnel a good chunk of the proceeds your way. Support requirements mandate that in any case. Cheers, -Greg > From: Francesco Anselmo <[email protected]> > Date: May 13, 2011 4:10:22 PM PDT > > Hi Greg and all! > > Great news that Photosphere can make a jump into Linux! > > Lars' suggestion is great, but there are also some possibilities > to make a cross-distro binary package: > http://listaller.nlinux.org/ or https://launchpad.net/listaller > http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/ > > Otherwise we can try it the Blender way: > decide on a target amount of money you want to reach to free the source code > and wait for enough people to pay and exceed the target, then free the code > ... > I think it's an interesting business model ... and the HDRI community is > rather large ... > > Other than this, I'm happy to help in my spare time, I've done a bit of > wxwidgets > programming and packaging for linux and windoze. > > Ciao ciao, > > Francesco _______________________________________________ HDRI mailing list [email protected] http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/hdri
