As I hinted would happen several times, Spark has gone Open Source. OpenSpark is the Open and Free reincarnation of Spark; now hosted at SourceForge, and licensed under the GPL.
Other than supporting Open Source and Android, there are several goals behind this:
- There are various errors that only those that experience them can fix (they seem to be limited to specific accounts)
- Critical issues noted in the README file (please read it if you’d like to contribute) require attention that I simply cannot currently provide
- OpenSpark could always use more translations to new languages
- The constant conspiracy theories about Spark stealing credit card numbers, and other nonsense are getting annoying and need to end
Again, if you’d like to contribute, please see the README file; first and foremost. You can also contact me at openspark-devel AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net (un-mangle the email address above).
The current stable release is still 1.1 – same version as the one on Android Market. Most of the critical fixes noted in the README apply to this version as well, so if we can get them fixed, there will be another pre-2.0 release (2.0 will include the newer features, such as services, and AppWidgets, when they are completed).
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