Hi James, Correct. The GPL is intended for completely free and non-commercial software which includes sounds, graphics, and other associated materials. As a result if Josh uses commercial sounds from game x he just voids the GPL license. At most the GPL will protect his source code, but all of the sounds are still under their original commercial license. For what he wants to do it is better to give it away license free.
On 3/24/10, James Dietz <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think you can GPL something which uses copyrighted sounds. > Best just distributed it license-free with the sounds. Licenses are > confining anyway. If you can get creative with sound effects; edit and > combine them in interesting ways to give your game a unique > atmosphere. It'll sound odd with sounds coming from all sorts of > games. That or worse: it'll sound just like another game. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
