You are right, Almathera has been out of business since Feb 97 and the plug-in filters we produced are a 'dead' product - although I still have great fun using them.

What will actually happen to the plug-ins is a bit of a question at the moment. I've considered releasing them as freeware or shareware, but there could be residual rights issues in doing it that way that I've never had the time to investigate properly.

I want to keep my options open to the future, which means that I'll probably end up finding someone to take on the rights to them in exchange for some benefit for myself (which may be but isn't necessarily financial).

So I can't give a blanket authorization to say that it's ok for anyone to put these on their site, but at the same time I am rather pleased that people are still finding them useful.

So, this isn't an authorization to allow indescriminite downloads of my software, or links to sites that do this, but at the same time I am certainly not asking you to remove any links to such sites - with the proviso that sometime in the future this could change, and I would appreciate your cooperation then.

Sorry for sounding extraordinarily vague about this - but I've really not given it too much thought as yet :)

Take care,
Jolyon Ralph (ex Technical Director, Almathera)".

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