Image attribution and metadata
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Image attribution and metadata
Wesnoth is what it is because of the efforts of many people. Code contribution has been tracked directly with
The reason for the XMP metadata in
A simple CLI tool to edit metadata outside of the image editor is exiftool (https://www.exiftool.org/index.html). An example of what would give the needed info (while not leaking unintended data) is:
svn
or git
, but credit and copyrights for artistic contributions has been a more manual process. In an effort to streamline the attribution and copyrights, we now require the following information:
- Author - This will be saved as EXIF "Artist" tag in
*.webp, *.jpg
and XMP (dc) "Creator" tag in*.png
- Copyright - This will be saved as EXIF "Copyright" tag in
*.webp, *.jpg
and XMP (dc) "Rights" tag in*.png
- Creation date - This will be saved as EXIF "Create Date" tag in
*.webp, *.jpg
and XMP (dc) "Date" tag in*.png
- Comments (any other information you need to include) - This will be saved as EXIF "User Comment" tag in
*.webp, *.jpg
and XMP (dc) "Description" tag in*.png
The reason for the XMP metadata in
*.png
is because this is what can be read and written with GIMP and Photoshop. For GIMP, navigate to Image->Metadata->Edit Metadata
and edit the "Description: Author" and "Description: Copyright Notice" to include the critical data.A simple CLI tool to edit metadata outside of the image editor is exiftool (https://www.exiftool.org/index.html). An example of what would give the needed info (while not leaking unintended data) is:
exiftool -all="" -overwrite_original -XMP:Creator="<your name>" -XMP:Rights="CC BY-SA 4.0" -XMP:Date=now -XMP:Description="<whatever text>" <filename.png>
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