Currently BOINC's screensaver uses texfont, an OpenGL text renderer that is not open source and apparently never will be.
We need to replace textfont with an open-source alternative. It looks like a good candidate is FreeType 2 (http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/index.html). FreeType 2 is a low-level (single-char) API, and we'd need a higher-level string-drawing function, similar to texfont's txfRenderString(). Such a function may be available in FT2's sample code. If anyone on this list wants to volunteer for this task, let me know. Otherwise I'll have one of our staff do it. -- David On 25-Jul-2012 11:45 AM, Ramana Kumar wrote: > I would like to try BOINC, but not so much that I want to make an > exception for nonfree software. > My preferred OS (Parabola GNU/Linux) blacklists BOINC because it is > not completely free software. > The specific details for why are documented here > http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Software_blacklist#boinc_.2F_boinc-app-seti > > I would like to ask the developers this: are you committed to not > using freeglut or another free glut replacement? > If not, could I ask that you attempt to make the switch, so we can > reevaluate BOINC for freedom and eventually get it off the blacklist. > I don't see any reason why a project like BOINC needs to be nonfree :) > > Cheers, > Ramana > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
