Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Falmaidan

[Jaime E. Villate]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:15:59AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Christoph Groth <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Falmaidan
> System name: falmaidan
> This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

> Falmaidan, which in the elven tongue Sindarin means ``Maker of Waves\'\',
> is a program for animating fluids.  It allows the user to create 3d
> animations which contain realistically moving fluids.  Currently the program
> understands a subset of the POV-Ray scene description language for input.
> More information can be found under http://falmaidan.sf.net/ .
> 
> Further development will concentrate on the following areas:
> - Improving the simulation method (make it faster & more stable).
> - Generation of a realistic-looking fluid surface.
> - Support for other renderers (e.g. Panorama).
> - Making the program more usable.

>  The project has been frozen for several months due to its main author
> fulfilling his social service in Germany but work is about to restart.  The
> author has been invited by http://www.jugend-forscht.de/ to present his work
> at the CeBIT in March.  He would like to find a replacement for SourceForge
> until that time.

Hi,
We are sorry that your project cannot currently be hosted in Savannah due to
its dependence on a proprietary renderer (POV-Ray). When you manage to support
a free renderer, you can register your project again.

Regards,
Jaime Villate