Re: [xmlvm-users] Support for J2ME (MIDP) to IPhone cross compilation, commercial usage, Apple AppStore?

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

Gergely,

thank you for your interest in XMLVM. The contribution you mentioned is 
surely enough to grant you a linking exception. We focus on Android and 
iPhone, so we would prefer a contribution to the android2iphone part of 
XMLVM. I personally also believe that this is the cleaner approach.

As with any open source project, I don't know who is using XMLVM. I do 
not know of any application using XMLVM that is currently in the 
AppStore. However, I know of several applications that have been 
submitted to the AppStore for review (including our own Xokoban game). I 
will send a short message over this mailing list if I hear of any XMLVM 
success stories.

We currently do not have a commercial license. At this point the XMLVM 
core team only consists of 'geeks'. We are not opposed to offer a 
commercial license. Before we talk about money, we would need to know 
what your expectations are. One thing we can offer in return for a 
commercial license is to prioritize TODOs based on your needs. But 
perhaps you first mention more clearly what your expectations are.

Arno


Gergely Kis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found your very nice project.
> 
> We are looking into a solution to port our J2ME / BlackBerry / Android 
> application over to IPhone.
> For Android we have a thin wrapper to provide the necessary J2ME 
> services. We use the following features:
> - JSR-135 (Multimedia)
> - JSR-170 (PIM, Filesystem access)
> - Generic Connector Framework
> - RecordStore
> - Canvas
> 
> We plan to contribute the missing pieces of these features to the xmlvm 
> project. Does this kind of contribution enough to get a GPL Linking 
> Exception?
> We have not decided yet whether we will start the J2ME MIDP support 
> "from scratch", or just add the missing pieces to the android2iphone 
> library, and use our Android port as the basis.
> 
> We would be also interested in the price of the commercial license. Our 
> clients might feel safer to be able to have an actual contract which 
> grants them the right to use the xmlvm runtime libraries.
> 
> A very important question, before we invest too much energy into this: 
> Are there applications already in the Apple App Store that were ported 
> using xmlvm? Could we get some pointers? Are there any issues that we 
> have to check?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Gergely Kis
> MattaKis Consulting
> 
> 
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