“The Probotics team is proud to announce that we are
releasing all of our source code to Map-N-Zap under the Gnu Public
License. This includes all of our GUI, Iconic programming language,
and Robot communtion protocol code. This decision was made in
part because of the numerous requests from the linux community for
our source code, and the realization that they, and developers for
other platforms, have much to offer to our mission, which is to
make really cool robotic technology. We would love for you to take
our source code and do wonderful things with it. Obviously, since
we are releasing under the GPL, any contributions you make will
remain under the GPL as will this release, even if we choose to
later re-release this code under a proprietary license.”
“The source code which is released is that of version Map-N-Zap
2.1, with some changes. These changes are briefly described in the
included readme. They are mainly work arounds to some proprietary
source code which we did not hold the copyright to, and some (very
preliminary) additional development.”
“This is a preliminary release of the source code. We are
currently re-designing Map-N-Zap, to improve both the functionality
and portability of the code. This code will also be much better
documented than our current code. We expect to have this done in
around 6 months or so. Until then, we wanted developers to have the
opportunity to examine and work with our code.”
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