Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Selling Wesnoth?

Alex Turner Mon, 02 May 2005 12:40:12 -0400

I suppose it's fine, providing that the source is included, and the GPLis satisfied. If he wants to pay 10% off his profits, that sounds great;but he would be making that as a donation; I'd advise against trying toenter into any contracts of any sort.

In other news; I have some ideas I want to run by the 'hardcore' MPpeople, but still can't get to the Wesnoth site or Forums; I assume itsnot just me still having this problem?


-Alex Turner




Asa Swain wrote:

Isaac,
I suppose it doesn't hurt to pursue this offer, but I
am suspicious of the idea of "selling" wesnoth. If we
offer a complete version for free on our website, I'm
not sure that a pretty box and manual would justify
people spending money for it. Of course people might
buy it at a store not knowing there is a free version
available.
  This man seems like a fan of the game, but he
obviously wants to try to make money off of it.
Between trying to sell us his magazine and offering us
profits from selling Wesnoth, I'm suspicious of his
attempts to make money of the popularity of our game.
   I don't mean that I don't trust him, I just
ethically have issues with "selling" an open-source
game. I don't think that that is how we should be
spreading this game. What would we do with the
profits? Defray bandwidth costs? Even if we write a
really good manual, is that worth the 29 euros he
wants to charge? Of course Wesnoth won't reach v1.0
for quite a while, so we don't have to decide now. A
good manual would make Wesnoth easier to learn and
play, but for now I think finishing the game is more
important.

-Asa

P.S. Although before v1.0 writing a HTML or pdf manual
to include with the game might be a good idea. So is
improving our help system, but I like reading manuals

outside of the game.

--- Isaac Clerencia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Saturday, 30 de April de 2005 16:41, you wrote:

Hello Isaac

Thank you for you kind answer. I will send you on

Monday the issue where we

gave Wesnoth (that was four months ago) and also

the last issue of the

magazine. I just need you adress of course, and

don't hesitate to send me

the adress of other people of your team. I saw

that you have many Frenchman

in your team maybe they know about PC4War (I also

directed some others

magazine in the past years : Vaevictis and

Cyberstratège) I can believe it

it possible to distribute and sell you game like

this, freely... As a

Fantasy General / Master of Magic fan for years, I

jump on the ocasion (I

play Wesnoth nearly once every week). What I would

like to do is try to

finalize with you a "commercial" version, this

mean a version you could

consider "final" (or at least 1.0), setup a manual

with you, get all this

boxed and produce the CD, and try to sell them

through our store

www.store4war.com to start with, with the support

of PC4War. I will read

the GPL agreement to be sure this can be done. We

will finance all the

production and I offer you the regular copyrights

for this, which is 10%

royalties on all game sold (on the public price).

As Wesnoth will still be

available freely from your website, I think that

we have to realise a good

manual to justify for the fact that we sell the

game. Msot probably, we

will try to sell the game around 29 euros at the

most. Another way to do it

would be simply to give the game in the magazine,

but it doesn't make a

real change. I will try to think about his in the

next days, and I wait for

your adress. Théophile
www.pc4war.com

--
Isaac Clerencia at Warp Networks, http://www.warp.es
Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   | Debian: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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