George Michaelson wrote:
> Its already frozen code (I asked the author, no dev since 2003)
...
> What do other people do?

I say take the code and make it your own, with the appropriate
acknowledgements.  It already does what the author wants, so he has no use
for your patches.  You have a vision: go for it!  

(I'm a big igal fan, too.  I look forward to igal2.)  ;-) 

Regareds, 

--jkl