[theora-dev] Follow-up on the Cortado 0.6.0 source vs the official Cortado 0.6.0 binary

[mezzanine at Safe-mail.net]

At the URL http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/cortado/cortado-ov-stripped-0.6.0.jar there is a binary release of the Cortado 0.6.0 applet (dated March 19, 2010.) It would be easy to assume that the file at the URL http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/cortado/cortado-0.6.0.tar.gz (dated March 19, 2010) (which appears to be in the same directory) comprises the corresponding source code for the previously-mentioned Cortado 0.6.0 binary. At the same time, it has been said that the Cortado applet 0.6.0 binary has been processed with the Proguard software, and yet I have not found any mention of the Proguard software in the cortado-0.6.0.tar.gz file. (At the URL http://git.xiph.org/?p=cortado.git;a=tree there is a cortado.proguard file; the file listing at this URL may be more up-to-date or different from the source and binary packages that are under the http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/cortado/ URL.) Under Ubuntu Linux, after installing the Proguard package, compiling from the Cortado source code (probably from the downloaded cortado-0.6.0.tar.gz) did not seem to produce a Cortado binary that had been processed with Proguard (i.e. with such names as A.class, B.class, etc.)

As such, for the previously mentioned cortado-ov-stripped-0.6.0.jar binary under the http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/cortado/ directory, it seems unclear as to whether the nearby cortado-0.6.0.tar.gz file would by itself constitute the corresponding source code for the purpose of license compliance (and, for any users who have an interest in source code, convenience.) As stated earlier, it would be easy for a user who distributes the binary to make such an assumption about the cortado-0.6.0.tar.gz file as the source code.

It would be useful to be able to use official releases of the Cortado applet binaries in projects (i.e. HTML files that incorporate Ogg Vorbis audio) that are distributed on physical media (i.e. CD-ROM discs.) For a user who undertakes such an action, it should be easy for them to know as to what other files should be included on the disc for the purpose of providing the corresponding source code and for providing license information.

--Richard