[Scummvm-devel] ScummVM and iPhSoft

[Max Horn]

Am 06.08.2009 um 14:57 schrieb Joost Peters:

> Max Horn wrote:
>> So folks,
>>
>> what does everybody think about the iPhSoft releast of FOTAQ -- and
>> today, Simon 1 (and soon Simon 2 and ITE, for both <http://iphsoft.com/
>>> already contains pages ?
>>
>> Did anybody look at their patches / source tar balls?
>>
>> Should we take their offer? I.e., this one:
>> "We also interesting in transfer some of the income (more that 10%)  
>> to
>> ScummVM Project, can you send us a PayPal invoice (with the sum I  
>> will
>> send you) ?"
>>
>> (Of course this would require us to have an account, see my other  
>> post
>> with the subject "Re: Description of ScummVM in README")
>
> Regarding the patch/source; it looks mostly complete - they kindly
> didn't include the project file so it would need some effort to build,
> and of course lacks the new graphics they're using, so would be  
> useless
> without placeholders or stripping out the code that uses it.
>
> As I've expressed in the past I'm not really happy with these
> re-releases, and the amount of money they're making with it (the first
> release literally was a 30 minute hackjob), although it's a good thing
> they're offering a share of the profits, and I strongly feel we should
> take them up on it.
>
> There are many things we could use the money for (GSoC mentor  
> expenses,
> helping fund a 1.0 release party, etc).  I do feel the money belongs  
> to
> us, so we should receive it, even if there is no immediate use for it.

True. A 1.0 release party, and/or more mentors on the GSoC mentor  
summit -- yummy... ;).

>
> I'd be willing to help / use my personal PayPal and deal with the
> tax-headache for this if no better solution can be found.

Thanks. This might be a good option.


>
> On a related note I also find it disappointing that none of the IP
> owners contacted us for 'first dibs', seeing as we did all the hard  
> work.

Agreed. If somebody here has contacts with Adventure Soft, maybe we  
should contact them about this.

Also note: At least for FOTAQ, no legal or technical reasons stop us  
from making our own iPhone version of it and offering that on the  
AppStore for free. At least in principple. I don't say we should do  
that, I just say we could.


>
> According to their Simon 1 page they're distributing James Woodcock's
> music alongside - are they allowed to do this?  (CC'ing James on this
> email).

James blogged about this (reads a bit like advertisement, in fact ;),  
so he certainly is aware and happy: <http://www.jameswoodcock.co.uk/?p=1926 
 >


Cheers,
Max