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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of open panorama file format - savanna
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Loic Dachary |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of open panorama file format - savannah.nongnu.org |
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Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:35:02 +0100 |
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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