On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Philip Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Karl Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Philip Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Karl Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I've left all the CCs in; should they all be maintained, or can > >> > some be dropped? > >> > > >> > [...] > >> > ./binaries/data/tests/collada/sphere.pmd > >> > - its a data file, and i can't see a free software tool to open > >> > this. > >> > >> It's the game's custom format for mesh data > >> (http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/PMD_File_Format). > >> [...] > > > > So it can be modified by the game/related tools? > > It can be created and parsed and rendered (but not modified) by the > game engine. It used to be exported by a custom 3ds Max plugin but we > no longer use that (we export to Collada since ~4 years ago). It's not > designed to be a modifiable format, but it's not theoretically > impossible to modify - there's a Python script at > http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/461 to convert .pmd back into > editable Collada format so it can be imported into e.g. Blender, > though that currently only works for static meshes and not > skeletally-animated ones. > > >> > ./binaries/data/tools/fontbuilder/fonts/* > >> > - this doesn't appear in d/copyright; because they're not installed > >> > from here? > >> > - i note that there is a comment in there to this effect "The > >> > Converted... fonts were produced by opening the originals in > >> > FontForge 20090923, changing the names, and exporting as > >> > TrueType.". problem for debian? > >> > >> Those files aren't used in the build or installation at all, they're > >> just used by an offline tool that converts them to PNGs (so it was > >> convenient to keep the original font files in SVN and they're not > >> explicitly excluded from the release tarballs). > > > > Are these the original? the comment implies they are not. > > DejaVuSans.ttf, DejaVuSansMono.ttf, texgyrepagella-regular.otf, > texgyrepagella-bold.otf are unmodified originals. > > ConvertedPagella-Regular.ttf, ConvertedPagella-Bold.ttf are > non-original and derived from texgyrepagella-*. The original > texgyrepagella-* are from > http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre under the license > http://www.gust.org.pl/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt (LaTeX > Project Public License 1.3c plus a suggestion to rename the fonts when > modifying them). > > Just for clarification: mentors, if there are files in the source package that are unused during a build of that package (in this case, fonts), and not installed by the package, do I still need to document them in debian/copyright? Or can I just safely ignore them and not have to worry about copyright and licensing issues? Or should I simply remove them from the source package? > >> > ./libraries/fcollada/src/FCollada/FColladaTest/Samples/Copyright.txt > >> > ./libraries/fcollada/src/FCollada/FColladaTest/Samples/Eagle.DAE > >> > - according to the Copyright file, Eagle.DAE is non-free. > >> > >> [...] > > Any chance you could stop shipping the DAE file? otherwise debian will > > have to repack the tarball. > > Changed the tarball generation script in > http://trac.wildfiregames.com/changeset/9160 > > Since nobody has mentionned it yet, i'd just like to take a moment and thank Philip for taking the time to explain and clear up a lot of potential licensing issues, and for being a cooperative upstream. We really appreciate your time and effort. :) - Vincent
