On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Ignacio Riquelme Morelle < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 September 2012 10:20:21 Victor Khimenko wrote: > > This commit is somewhat misleading: you can not mix GPL code and non-GPL > > code. > > > > TL;DR: the proper test should says something like "The game's source code > > is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, > or > > (at your option) any later version. Some portions of the code can be used > > under different licenses - see source references for details." > > So basically you are saying that the problem stems from the lack of clarity > regarding 'use' versus 'distribution', right? Not exactly. When you say "The game's source code is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your option) any later version, except where it is explicitly stated otherwise" this "except where it is explicitly stated otherwise" basically sends the reader on the wild goose chase: s/he must read and understand GPLv2 and then it must find and understand all other licenses which can be found in the various pieces of code. > If so, what would you think of this instead? > > > The game's source code and artwork, sound, and music assets are provided > > under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, or (at your > > option) any later version. Note that for artwork, sound, and music, we > > interpret "preferred form of the work for making modifications" as the > > modifiable form that the author chooses to ship us for the source tree. > > For convenience, a reference copy of the GNU GPL version 2 is provided in > > the COPYING file in this distribution. > > > > Some portions of the source code can be used under different license > terms, > > whenever stated as such in the source. > > Yeah, this looks much clearer: here it's obvious to any potential user that s/he must read and understand attached GPL - and that's it. End of story. If s/he wants to find some pieces which can be used under different licenses s/he can do it, but that's optional.
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