good choice :)

I'm looking forward to that game

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Daniel Pozzi<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>
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