On Tuesday 01 September 2009 07:11:53 am Charles Cave wrote: > Now you are claiming you have developed the program from > "scratch", yet you have appropriated the product name, > and you are copying the look and feel.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery :-) I have no problem with charging for an application, as I can understand the argument of wanting to recover your development fee. However, if you are going for a closed-source paid-for app, then it's perhaps better to pick a different name, as you already suggested yourself. If on the other hand you go for an open-source paid-for app (yes, that's a valid legal combination!), that would put me in a position to review your code, and iMnemosyne could then perhaps even become the "official" Mnemosyne client for the iPhone (even though one could have to pay you for the convenience of downloading a binary from the Apple store). Obviously, another iPhone developer could at a later stage decide to take your code and distribute it for free on the Apple store. Regardless of which route you go, I'm very much in favour of interoperability with the desktop version of Mnemosyne. That's what libSM2sync is all about: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~peter-bienstman/mnemosyne- proj/trunk/files/head%3A/mnemosyne/libSM2sync/ (it does require you to hang on to the revision history for syncing and log upload, though.) So, in summary, I'm very supportive of your project. A native iPhone companion app to Mnemosyne will surely be very useful for many Mnemosyne users, regardless of its name, price or license. Good luck! Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
