No one is toying with Sophie ?

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Jul 8 19:58:15 UTC 2006


>> I have a question, since you brought up "funding". Is Sophie  
>> intended to
>> be free open source? And, if so, are there plans for it to remain  
>> open
>> source? Have you looked into the licensing issues?
>
> Yes, it is part of the Mellon Foundation funded OpenSource  
> initiative for higher education. License is new BSD.
>
>> Are you planning to include unix?
>
> Sophie works on unix/Linux, but we some features like native  
> quicktime might not be supported. *ix platforms have also been a  
> little lower on our priority list, so things like clipboard support  
> are missing as well.
>
> But we hope a lively developer community will gather around Sophie  
> once it is released :-)

I'm sure it will.

Stef




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