Sapphire goes Open-Source
January 1, 2008
Sapphire, our
favorite and only plug in for the new FrontRow 2 / AppleTV has opted to
open up their project finally and allow for others to start tinkering with it. When the Sapphire project was first started Graham and Parick had decided that they would open the project up under GNU Public License, once the foundation was estabilished and solid. This occurred last month with the latest release.
Opening the code on a project such as this will hopefully inspire additional tweaks and changes to Sapphire, improving its interface, adding more options, or debugging. The code could also inspire the release of additional media browser like plug-ins for AppleTV or FrontRow. Or perhaps an EyeTV based Plug-In?
With the latest release of Sapphire, it was open-sourced. You can now browse the code on the
Sapphire Trac or use the
Subversion Repository to checkout a copy. Distribution and use is restricted to the terms of the
GNU Public License (v3).
Labels: AppleTV, FrontRow, Plug-Ins
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