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in article mwron-8810A2.18463307062005@news.newsguy.com, MW Ron at
mwron@metrowerks.com wrote on 6/7/05 3:46 PM:

> I'll get you more information as it is made available to me.  the answer
> to most questions is going to be stay tuned for more information but
> feel free to ask.

Well, I second Richard Buckle's question here:

"Of course, it would help enourmously if MW were to either (a) provide
some official mechanism for submitting and distributing changes to
PowerPlant code, or (b) simply bite the bullet and open-source it.

What do you say, MetroWerks? Will you do us one final favour and open
PowerPlant (and maybe PPx) to either controlled developer contribution
or full open-source?"

since I've got lots of shipping PowerPlant-based projects (hell, I'm
developing two right NOW, the latest in the Paradox strategy game series,
which is still running on basically the same engine written for EU2 back in
the OS 9 days) and seven off the top of my head I'm pretty sure clients are
going to want updated for OS X86. An official statement from Metrowerks on
how I can do that legally, if I can at all, would be very welcome.

Preferably, an official statement of the form "Go ahead and make whatever
changes you need to make to build your projects with XCode and feel free to
redistribute whatever PowerPlant files are needed to your clients so they
have a complete buildable-on-XCode source tree."

Ideally, an official statement of the form "Everything in /PowerPlant is now
BSD licensed open source. Go wild!" After having faithfully supported
CodeWarrior ever since DR1 Gold, that doesn't strike me as a completely
unreasonable thing to request.