On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 10:48:27PM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: > > > I think "preferred form of modification" still works here -- if the form > > > is too large to be easily passed around, it's clearly not preferred. > > > > I disagree. The preferred form of modification for these movie clips is > > the original lossless data, or the AfterEffects, etc. data, and so on. > > I disagree. The preferred form of modification is completely subjective > and depends on the individual who is modifying the software. Subjective > opinions aren't going to work for policy. For non-program files such as
Considering it works for the GPL--a copyright license, drafted by lawyers, subject to the interpretation of a court of law, and scrutinized more than any other license ever used, I'm sure--I think this is a silly assertion. > multimedia or publications, there should be a master list of MIME types > and a voted-on list of acceptable source code formats for each MIME > type, in the case that upstream does not certify that the file was > created as-is from scratch (example: capturing directly via hardware or > via a software filter to a MPEG-4 or Vorbis file). I think this is too stupid an idea to even spend my time debating (or even to spend time coming up with a more diplomatic way of saying so). -- Glenn Maynard
