I can not find a way to contact the owner, i can't find a mailing list. Therefore i have no way to upload new releases since it seems as if this project is dead. I would like to help code and progress this application a little further. How do i go about helping this project?

Hey, sorry. There's no mailing list, though I see this, and my address is on the entry for contacting the owner in the Android market. I haven't had much time to work on this in the past few months, but if you have specific changes, I can take a look. I gave another developer a copy of the jar key but I couldn't figure out how to transfer ownership of the market entry.

No problem, darn, that was the only place i didn't check for your email. There were 2 things i had in mind. one was to include the graphics that this guy made: http://code.google.com/p/boxeeremote/issues/detail?id=10

As well as see if i can get seek working like he seemed to and center the buttons.

Another was to check out what changes this guy did: http://code.google.com/p/boxee-xbmc-remote/

And add improvements he made to create a better build. I also just wanted to mess around with the app and see what i could do to improve it. I'm not very experienced with developing for android but i wouldn't release anything without your consent.

I downloaded the code for the copy\fork, and attached a screenshot of the fork running in the emulator.

At a glance, the fork added a handful of buttons to support some more of Boxee's functionality. They appear to work, although I did not test them in depth. He also tweaked the "Now Playing" code. There might be more changes that I forgot to mention. You can find details in the file patch.patch.

I also compared Revision 2 of the fork with R62 of our original project. R62 was the current version ("HEAD") when the fork was created. Revision 2 of the fork includes that code, plus a few changes, all in one shot. There was no log message for Revision 2.

Here is some more info on how the patch and comparison report files were generated.

report.html: I loaded up the WinMerge application, and selected the appropriate folders (original R62 and the fork). I set the Left window to be the original, Right window to be the Fork. I set WinMerge to ignore \bin, \gen, and all .svn folders. I also set it to show only differences, and generated the report by clicking "Tools"->"Generate Report"

patch.patch: I checked out the original BoxeeRemote R62 to a folder. I then manually copied over all the files that had been listed in Report.html. I used TortoiseSVN to create a patch, including all files (versioned and unversioned)

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I should mention a concern about licensing. The original project is licensed Apache v2. The license of the fork as listed on code.google.com is GPL v3. However, in the source of the fork, the LICENSE and NOTICE files have been left intact as Apache v2. We might have to ask brandon15811 for clarification on what license his code actually is.

I am not a lawyer, but I believe GPLv3 projects can incorporate Apache v2 code, but not the other way around. The combined code becomes GPL v3 software. I'm fuzzy on the details in the case where brandon15811 would give us permission to copy, through re-licensing or some other means. In that case would it be okay to copy his code?

Check out http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

I have asked brandon15811 the question about the license here: http://code.google.com/p/boxee-xbmc-remote/issues/detail?id=2

Brandon15811 has said that the license of the fork is Apache v2. That basically makes licensing concerns a non-issue as far as I understand it.