On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 15:30 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Callum Lerwick wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 20:39 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > >> 2007/1/8, Callum Lerwick <seg@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >>> Way sooner than I ever imagined, the Second Life client has been > >>> released under GPLv2 license. Though it has the usual "still needs some > >>> proprietary third party libs" strings attached. Namely fmod. > >> AFAIK it's the only closed-source lib there. But I've seen mentions > >> about CDDL-licensed matherial (FC-folks afraid of that license). Bad > >> news that there isn't a PowerPC-variant of that blob. > > > > Okay, turns out you can build without fmod, you just don't get sound. SL > > also makes extensive use of JPEG2000 for texture compression, using a > > proprietary lib. It can be built against OpenJPEG, but supposedly its > > performance is rather bad. > > > > So, we should be able to get SL into Fedora, though it will be rather > > suboptimal until fmod is replaced with, say, OpenAL, and OpenJPEG gets > > optimized. > > > > Replacing fmod with openAL seems strange, SDL_mixer or mikmod would be > much better choices as they are modtrackers too. This shouldn't be too hard. Both Squeak and Croquet use openal. I beleive that squeak is part of the secondlife server base. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================ _______________________________________________ Fedora-games-list mailing list Fedora-games-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-games-list
