Hi, Ivanovic pointed me at the gna mailing archive. Since I am not on the list I' ve only received Dave's reply.
I decided to publish the game under the GPL, because I am a Wesnoth fan and don't want to upset you / the community. Viele Grüße Daniel Am 26.06.2009 um 22:51 schrieb [email protected]: > 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
