[Neurodebian-devel] experimental OpenVibe package

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Mon, 06 Aug 2012, Nicolas Bourdaud wrote:
> >  * I guess there could be more ;)

> The public domain incertitude is really an issue: AFAIK putting in the
> public domain is equivalent to abandon copyright (maybe I am wrong), but

kinda but also -- does it claim absent responsibility for all the harm
and suffering this software might cause???  that is why all the licenses
have disclaimers (and thus it is important to have such a license), and
only US government is allowed to "deposit" into public domain
AFAIK ;)


> > * vrpn-bin -- why not just vprn?  especially since it would provide the server
> Just because there is more than just the server but "vrpn" is fine as well.

sure -- but IMHO vrpn would be easier/cleaner.  please provide updated
package and I will build/upload that one to neurodebian for now so
you could easily work on openvibe across distributions

> > oops -- I guess I am missing something -- what is the sources for a .ttf?
> I am no expert in font creation/edition but I think ttf is not the form
> preferred for edition. See:
> http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/#Source_Font_Formats

ah... learning new stuff every day ;)

> > http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezy&arch=i386&searchon=contents&keywords=bluehigh.ttf
> > 9758ef0e42ec4826b12fda11d49b3e84  usr/share/OGRE-1.7.4/media/fonts/bluehigh.ttf

> > CCing Manuel - OGRE maintainer for comments -- you carry those fonts for which
> > copyright/license terms I guess are missing from debian/copyright and I am
> > afraid they might fall under non-free...

> It seems everybody is fond of this font! :-D
> But why this one o_O?

probably just "monkey see -- monkey do" effect and  iirc it was "free
for non-commercial use" so projects took it ;)  also copyright/license
concerns are often put on the 2nd plan in FOSS projects.

> >>  OpenVibe should normally qualify
> >> for non-free.  Tomorrow I will contact upstream about its possible removal.
> > indeed, ideally those should be "replaced" with some free alternative.
> This could be easily replaced by a free alternative, however some other
> data files might also deviate from the DFSG (the .mesh and other which
> have likely been generated from a 3DSmax or Blender scene). On the good
> side, these data file are used only by the demos. So in the worst case,
> we have the possibility to put only the demos in the non-free section.

but may be they *were* generated from blender scene which someone might
still have? ;)
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