Why not put a reference to the website in the loading page, or the
credits, or maybe in a special button on the main menu?  If we make
the reference to the website part of the game itself, and throw in a
reference to the GPL, than it becomes a self-referencing program that
is freely distributable by anyone without modification.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:28 AM, jeremy rosen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the GPL explicitely specify that pointing to a website that provides
> the code is enough
>
> since they don't plan to modify the sourcecode, pointing to our website is
> sufficiant
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 14:10:13 +0100,
> >  Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > * There is no restriction on distributing, or even selling, the
> software.
> >
> > That isn't true. If they distribute it (which they are planning to) they
> > need to provide source to the people they provide it to. My understanding
> > of this (Packtrick's people should read the license) is that pointing to
> > the Wesnoth copy of the source isn't good enough, they need to provide
> > the service themselves in order to guaranty availability.
> >
> >
> > > For details you should read the (really well known and widely accepted)
> > > GPL license.
> >
> > Absolutely.
> >
> >
> >
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