Hi A couple of years ago I invented a simple 3D format based on XML that made it easy for anyone to create a 3D web experience. The format in XML compliant. I created a company called Flatland that developed Flatland Rover to play 3DML files on Windows and Mac and in IE and Netscape browsers. The time has come to open source the codebase for Flatland Rover so that development can expand and continue within the community. The MPL license looks like the way to go BUT (and there is always a but when a company considers opensource): 3DML is not a standard format like VRML or HTML. It is a tag format we developed. The last thing I want to see is the modification of the current tags or random addition of hundreds of new tags that most players will not understand. The MPL license enables this kind of growth and confusion of tags, file extensions and MIME types. Has anyone run into this before? The problem seems to be addressed more by the Artistic License than the MPL license. I tried to incorporate the appropriate clause from the Artistic License into an Amendment to the MPL license - and called in the Flatland Public License. Please review the license at http://www.flatland.com/FPL/FPL-1_1.html and see the amendment at the bottom of the page I want to encourage use of a standard MIME type for 3DML and standard file extensions and at the same time discourage use of these when someone incorporates tag changes to the markup format. Thanks for any advice, Michael inventor of 3DML
