If you really want to make a Wesnoth-based game. How about releasing your game GPL? Call on your users and developers to help you find and patch any bugs that appear in the code. This would allow for true software freedom, while resulting in code that isn't simply hidden, but actually more secure. Your users could not only play your game, but they could take your game and modify it to suit their needs. You would create a foundation for other open source games.
[email protected] wrote: > Quoting Daniel Pozzi <[email protected]>: > > >> Dear all, >> >> I am currently developing a web based fantasy football online game, >> which will be a mixture of a famous table top game, management >> elements like in Hattrick.org und will be settled in the World of >> Wesnoth. You manage team of players of different races (aka Wesnoth >> units) and compete against others. Turn based strategy as well. >> > > Please do not make a game that is set in the world of Wesnoth that is > not Open Source. > > We have spent many man-years of development time producing a high > quality Open Source product. I think it would be sad and unfair to our > developers if there was a non-Open Source product which caused > confusion about what Wesnoth is and the principles of its core > development team. > > >> Some of the graphics (the world maps and some units) of the Wesnoth >> project could be very helpful - but ... I dont want to open the source >> of the web site, to give less possibilities to cheat or exploit it. >> Therefore it would not be GPL, I think. Of course the game will be >> open for everybody and free of charge. >> >> Is it possible that the Wesnoth project could make an exception, or >> should I rather ask the individual authors of the images for their >> permission to use them? >> > > I think it would be legal for you to use the images as long as you > acknowledged their source and that they are under the GPL and so forth. > > However, I would question the wisdom of not open sourcing such a product... > > David > > >> Kind regards from Bonn, Germany >> >> Daniel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wesnoth-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev >> >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev > > _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
