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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
