LOlozzle·Nov 23, 2016
We've fixed the license for the project and merged it in:
https://github.com/facebookincubator/Keyframes/pull/32
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Keyframes
A library for converting Adobe AE shape based animations to a data format and playing it back on Android and iOS devices.
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What it is
A library for converting Adobe AE shape based animations to a data format and playing it back on Android and iOS devices.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Nov 22, 16:00 | 2016-11-22 16:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-22 17:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Nov 22, 17:00 | 2016-11-22 17:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-22 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 22, 18:00 | 2016-11-22 18:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-22 19:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 22, 19:00 | 2016-11-22 19:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-22 20:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 22, 20:00 | 2016-11-22 20:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-22 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 22, 21:00 | 2016-11-22 21:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-22 22:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 22, 22:00 | 2016-11-22 22:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-22 23:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 22, 23:00 | 2016-11-22 23:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 23, 00:00 | 2016-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-23 01:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 23, 01:00 | 2016-11-23 01:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-23 02:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesInteresting, thanks for the actual-lawyer perspective! So is it that ToSes are less legally binding than copyright law? Or is there special meaning behind "can't grant that right"?
Seems like a clear abuse of GitHub's goodwill towards real open-source projects, though. Luckily, it looks like they're going to change the license: https://github.com/facebookincubator/Keyframes/issues/24
In Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clientsI'm not actually familiar with blender or how that works with AE. I didn't work much on creation of the different compositions, just the end product, so I'm not sure what technologies our designers and animators may have worked with.
Presumably, if blender formats the composition in the supported structure and doesn't drift outside what the library recognizes and supports, it should work.
https://github.com/facebookincubator/Keyframes/blob/master/d...
In Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clientsWhy does the software license [1] include the following clause:
> provided Your Software does not consist solely of the Software
Why didn't you guys choose MIT or BSD? It feels like the custom Facebook license is close to the intent of these, but it has that mysterious gotcha.
In any case, thanks for the software! It looks really slick, and I definitely have a use case for using it to replace the sprite sheet I used for Donald Trump on jungle.horse.
[1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/Keyframes/blob/master/L...
In Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clientsThis is really slick, and I'm going to investigate using it for the Donald Trump animation on jungle.horse.
The license [1] doesn't look to be as encumbered as some of Facebook's other open source licenses, but does include a clause I found to be strange:
> provided Your Software does not consist solely of the Software
So if I'm reading this correctly, it means only Facebook can redistribute this software? Wat.
[1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/Keyframes/blob/master/L...
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