On Monday, 13 November 2006 at 20:27, Dennis Schridde wrote: > Is someone volunteering to write that?
I hope I will attach my proposal. I think that includes everything relevant, while keeping things short and to the point. -- BOFH excuse #186: permission denied
Both source code and data files of Warzone 2100 are distributed under the terms and conditions of the GPL (see GPL.txt for details). The wording of the readme.txt accompanying the original source release (see below) is ambiguous regarding the data files. On the basis of this readme.txt alone, there is no clear indication of the license of the data files. But the intention of the released archive was to give the community everything they need to further develop the game. To do that, we need to be able to modify the data files and to distribute our modifications. Thus our interpretation of the readme.txt is that both source code and data files are GPL-licensed. Since that might not satisfy everyone, we are (through Frank Lamboy) in contact with Alex McLean to clear the licensing situation. Unfortunately, he seems to be quite busy at the moment, but we hope to get an answer early 2007. Until then, here's a quote by Frank Lamboy about this situation: "I don't expect my reassurences over these matters to carry any weight even though they are based on almost 7 years communication with the Creators of WZ2100 (believe me nothing bad is gonna happen over what has been done to date with the source... WZ Creators are VERY happy with all your efforts and their business relationship with their parent company SCi, who own Eidos assets inc. WZ, are excellent. When the source was released they just didn't pay close attention to making any modifications to the GPL BOILERPLATE doc that would more accurately reflect their wishes in the continued development of WZ... that's all there is to it.. There are no draconian motives at play, though a literal interpretation of the boilerplate wording may suggest it to the GPL community watchdogs who would naturally, & conservatively, prefer to err on the side of hyper-caution. In Dec. '04 for WZ Creators to just go with the GPL boilerplate was k.i.s.s. and didn't require the additional expense of having an attorney redo the wording of the source distro doc)..." (http://wz2100.net/forum/index.php?topic=101.msg465#msg465) ----- <insert original readme>
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