Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Question

2010-06-16 Thread Scot McSweeney-Roberts
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:57, Stuart Clark stuart.cl...@jahingo.com wrote: [I know such information doesn't help for open source projects, but it would be interesting to know the level of the monetary/contractual bar to people wanting to do things officially, and what effect doing so has on

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Question

2010-06-16 Thread Stuart Clark
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:57, Stuart Clark stuart.cl...@jahingo.com wrote: [I know such information doesn't help for open source projects, but it would be interesting to know the level of the monetary/contractual bar to people wanting to do things officially, and what effect doing so has on

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Question

2010-06-16 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:29, Scot McSweeney-Roberts bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote: ... and then everyone who uses an open source project could individually get their own tables. only for those people who *actively* use open source. doesn't help at all with open source stacks

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Question

2010-06-16 Thread Stuart Clark
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:29, Scot McSweeney-Roberts bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote: ... and then everyone who uses an open source project could individually get their own tables. only for those people who *actively* use open source. doesn't help at all with open source stacks

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Question

2010-06-16 Thread Scot McSweeney-Roberts
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:42, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote: only for those people who *actively* use open source. doesn't help at all with open source stacks embedded in consumer-facing products. I doubt it would matter much with embedded systems. I can think of three cases - 1) The

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Question

2010-06-16 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:12, Scot McSweeney-Roberts bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote: 2) The company release their OS components, but the 'secret sauce' is a closed source app - again, they just include the include the tables in their product like a closed source system.

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Question

2010-06-16 Thread Adam Bradley
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Scot McSweeney-Roberts bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote: If they did it right then it would be a help (of sorts) to Open Source projects and everybody would be happy. All that's needed is a website where there's a form that includes an all import I

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Question

2010-06-16 Thread Scot McSweeney-Roberts
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:30, Adam Bradley a...@doublegeek.com wrote: But the BBC would require as part of the download agreement that you had appropriate content management on the device, wouldn't they? I would be very surprised if that wasn't part of the T C's, but then it's not much

Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Question

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Cockell
Now, if the bbc would consider rolling out a library like this under the LGPL One of these for the epg, but release the source under a bsd-like licence to distro suppliers so they can compile to tgt architectures and release through Partner-type repos... Use that as a proof of concept