Hi, Inform7 is a group of several pieces of software including: - a GUI to edit Inform7 source code - the 'ni' Inform7 -> Inform6 "compiler" / translator - the usual Inform6 core to build game binaries (Z-Machine or Glulx VM)
Looking at http://inform7.com/sources/i6n/ the Inform6 package is now marked as: Licence: Copyright 1993-2009 by Graham Nelson; published under the original Inform licence (see the Inform Designer's Manual, fourth edition, 2001), or under the Artistic License 2.0, at the user's choice http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html lists the AL2.0 as "a free software license, compatible with the GPL thanks to the relicensing option in section 4(c)(ii)." Source available at: http://www.inform7.com/sources/inform6/inform6.zip (though without any licensing information) So it looks like Inform6 is free software eventually. What about the other components? - GUI: http://inform7.com/sources/interfaces/ refers to a "Gnome for Linux" GUI which is GPL3 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnome-inform7 - ni: http://inform7.com/sources/webs/ sadly mentions it's "Not yet published. This is the largest and the most experimental of Inform's components; a long-term project of rewriting and clarifying ni for publication is now, as of April 2009, about two-thirds done." The GUI above ships a binary in its packages. So AFAICS, Inform7 is "mostly" free, and Inform6 completely free. -- Sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
