On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 02:16:44PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: > > It states: > > "The artwork and sounds used by Maelstrom are copyright Ambrosia Software > > (http://www.ambrosiasw.com) and may not be redistributed separately from > > the Maelstrom public GPL release." > > > > As GPL says that anything derived from GPLed source has to be GPLed again > > the sentence above complies with GPL, doesn't it? > > Not really. What is "The Maelstrom public GPL release"? It hinges on > the definition of that phrase. If it means "The tarfile on our site",
The source and the binaries compiled from it are GPL, but all the stuff ending up in /usr/lib/games/maelstrom seems to be under a different copyright. > then it's very non-free. If it means "Anything derived from the > Maelstrom package", then it's meaningless (which is okay for distribution, > is confusing). I'm confused about Ambrosia's policy. The copyright note in the maelstrom source restricts the distribution of the game graphics so it may only be distributed with the maelstrom source or binaries. But looking on Ambrosia's web site there are lots of add-ons i.e. tampered graphics and sounds, contributed by lots of different people. So on the one hand they encourage the distribution of separate artworks, but restrict it on the other. Ahhh, this sucks... -- * Christoph Baumann * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~cbauman1/welcome.html * * "External Error : INTELLIGENCE not found !" *
