Ok, here comes my crazy idea: The readme says: "provided as is with no guarantees." Can't we use that as a license? Similar ot the zlib license? Simply let others care what it means exactly... This way we won't break any license if that "as is" means it is under a certain license.
Anyway, I have some questions to our lawyers (or those of debian-legal or
whatever):
If it would be GPL, would we be allowed to use logos, symbols, names mentioned
in that data in other (non derived / new) files?
Or would that break a copyright?
Could we create a license like the PlaneShift license and transfer all rights
and their protection to ourselves for this game? (See PlaneShift / MethylBlue
for details.)
Would that need a legal institution (or whatever it is called)?
And would that need any money?
Who could create such an institution?
Would it help us in any way?
Would artist have any problems with creating data for Warzone under a
free-to-use-for-everything license?
Would CC be an option? Or is the GPL also suitable for data files?
What does "public domain" mean exactly? (In easy english with all the legal
backround info please.)
What does "All rights reserved" mean? Does that ("All rights reserved") count
to the copyright which is protected by the GPL?
Is it even GPL compatible?
Who owns the copyright on the sourcecode? Pumpkin? Eidos?
Who owns the copyright on a file of sourcecode when the file has been written
by dozens of people? Is it shared between all of them?
Do we need a copyright notice telling all their names in the affected files?
Questions, lots of questions,
Dennis
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