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.
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.
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.