[Savannah-hackers] Re: Project Airstrike in Savannah

[Jaime E . Villate]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:25:02PM +0200, Ulf Ekström wrote:
> Hi.
> [..]
> > To host your project in Savannah, you would also have to separate
> the model
> > files from the rest of the sources, because we cannot accept Povray
> model
> > files in Savannah (they require Povray which is a proprietary
> product).
> 
> I understand why I must do this, but it feels weird as I'm actually
> reducing the possibilities of the person who downloads the code, as he
> or she cannot modify the graphics files in a good way. Hopefully the
> next Povray version will be free (there is no free comparable program
> that I am aware of).
> Now for the question: Can I host the graphics (produced by this
> non-free program) on Savannah?  

By not loading Povray files you are not reducing the possibilities of
Free Software users (we do not have Povray anyway). Instead, if you uploaded
povray source files to Savannah, you'd be encouraging people to start using
non-free software, which is something we do not want to do.

There are some free raytracers. One of them (Panorama,
http://www.gnu.org/software/panorama/) is even part of the GNU project. You
can upload your graphics files in any free graphics format in Savannah; that
would be OK. But you would be helping the Free Software movement even better
if you started using panorama or other free raytracer instead of Povray.

Cheers,
Jaime