Re: [Enigma-devel] Engima for the iPhone/iPod Touch

[Geoffrey Gallaway]

> Would it not be possible for someone to make an iPhone "Oxyd" game  
> with a different name, using Enigma's source code? or does that also  
> violate the GPL?


I won't be able to name the game "Enigma" for an iPhone port, there's  
already an application in the app store named that. Maybe enigmaphone?  
iEnigma? who knows, coming up with a good name is a ways off. :)

Since the SDL implementation for the iPhone is out of date (I  
contacted the developer who had been working on it) it's quite likely  
that I would rewrite the application in OpenGL instead of SDL. I'm  
going to go that far I might also rewrite the game in Objective-C  
which is more of first-class language on the iPhone. So in the end, I  
would probably be using the enigma source code as more of a reference  
than a direct port. I would want to be compatible with the massive  
level collection available for Enigma. Let me be clear here: I  
completely understand that by looking at the source code to Enigma I  
can no longer create a clean-room implementation of the game. I do not  
want to create a clean-room implementation, why start from scratch  
when I can use code already written to create the application.

I would license the iPhone port of the application under the GPL v2  
license and give credit to the original Enigma source code. I would  
even be more than happy to let nongnu.org/enigma host the code.

I have many fond memories of playing Oxyd and believe that Enigma is a  
great game for the iPhone. I hope that licensing issues won't get in  
the way of bringing this great game to the iPhone.

Thanks,
Geoff