Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of open panorama file format - savannah.nongnu.org

[Loic Dachary]

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Mathieu VILLEGAS <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: fdl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: open panorama file format
 > System name: openpanorama
 > Type: non-GNU
 > 
 > Description:
 > The project is a documentation project.
 > The Goal of this project is to describe an Open file format for panoramic 
 > imaging based on XML.
 > The main work is to determine all data need to describe all sort of 
 > panoramas, and create an XML schemas and a DTD.
 > At the end, the goal is to be able to export any proprietary file format 
 > (like QTVR for example) to this open file format without a loss of data or 
 > quality.
 > This is not a new VRML format, but a XML specification dedicated to 
 > panoramic imaging and publishing.
 > At this time, five companies which work in panoramic imaging agree to work 
 > on this project and to support it. I hope most of the users of free (GPL) 
 > panoramic imaging software will be happy when they will know that such 
 > project is starting, and their contribution will be very relevant. I stand 
 > for an official web site for this project to start talking about it to 
 > independent developers and users concerned by panoramic imaging.
 > All documentations (so all files of the project) will be under GNU FDL.
 > 
 > I\'ve start working on it, but no specification is available online at this 
 > time. I stand to have more specifications and an official project web page 
 > to put it online and ask for more help.
 > 
 > 
 > Other Software Required:
 > 
 > 
 > Other Comments:
 > The word open in openpanorama means that this is an open file format. There 
 > is relation with open source.
 > If you think this a problem, I can try to find an other one. (but 
 > freepanorama is not really good)
 > 

        The word "open" when speaking of formats does not necessarily refer
to Open Source. 

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