On Tuesday, 19 September 2006 at 16:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any communications where they annouce what their intention > was? I mean in a forum, not what is in the archive. Could this be on > RTS.net someplace, which is original home to WZ right? I think Virgil > (sp?) wrote that he was the main contact person, so he would have all > the e-mail & stuff about what they wanted and all that?
As far as I remember, Virgil was the one asking for clarification (and never receiving an answer), so I guess if he knew something, he'd already mentioned it. > I also wonder where did they first upload the warzone2100.rar file? > Or was it packed by someone else? To some RTS.net member's FTP server, I think. > Wav->ogg was done mainly for space savings I think? So your saying > anything that isn't lossless is OK? That was assuming the data is GPL. The GPL needs you to provide source in the format preferred for modification, and that means not a lossy format. (It makes sense without that requirement; lossy compression should be the last step, just before packing the files into a release where they never are changed again.) > :) Too bad that we can't clear this up once and for all. It would be > a huge problem if Eidos or Pumpkin started to send out C&D notices > because of something we changed that we shouldn't have. Virgil said that Eidos transferred the copyright for the Warzone stuff to the Pumpkin guys, and if that's right, Eidos cannot do that. And, I assume (there's that word again...), Pumpkin won't. > >As it is not GPL anymore, RakNet is (sadly) out of the question. The > >CC license isn't GPL compatible, so if we use it, no Distribution can > >actually package Warzone. > > NUTS! That's the current RakNet License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ Non-commercial excludes every Distro that is sold in some way. Attribution means every Distro would have to have a note "RakNet by whoever" somewhere. The author states that's the most free license available. -- My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
