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Onyx Support and Contact Information

Onyx is not yet officially supported by anyone, and it is not guaranteed either to work as advertised or to not do anything bad, but if you would like to try out the current software and provide feedback to the author (Michael Paul Johnson) at your own risk, please do. Onyx-related email is best directed to the address below or, if you have an SIL.org or Kastanet.org address, to my sil.org address that includes my first, middle and last names, using the normal sil.org conventions. (Please pardon the puzzles, as I'm trying to keep my spam flow under a thousand messages a day.) I do care what you think about this software, and how it can be made better.
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Why the name “Onyx”?

Why not? It is just a code name. Onyx is a mineral that is attractive, easy to work into useful shapes (like chess pieces), and the name has an “O” for “open source” and an “X” in it, which seemed appropriate, given the project’s ties to XML. Suggestions for a better “real” name for this project are welcome. Then again, maybe it doesn’t really need another name. At least not yet.

Licensing, restrictions, and costs

Onyx is open source, and is released under your choice of the Gnu Lesser Public License or the Common Public License, as explained in LICENSING.txt. Fonts included with the project are subject to the SIL Open Font License (clarified by this FAQ). You may download both the program and the source code from this site without paying more than whatever your Internet access costs you, and you may redistribute it as specified under the terms of whichever license you choose to accept. This software is published by both SIL International and Evangel Bible Translators. Both of these organizations have contributed to the production of this software.

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