[freespace2] B5 mod and stuff

[Edward Gardner]

I think WMCoolmon at HLP got B5 working with a minimum of FS2 content, so
that list exists.

You guys have this working with the fs2 demo (this being the icculus
release), probably a worthwhile excercise to compare that list with the
contents of the demo. You CAN redistribute the demo. But that gets hairline
thin on whether you are "making a new game" etc...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Champion" <dave at dchamp.net>
To: <freespace2 at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [freespace2] B5 mod and stuff


> On 30 Sep 2002, Taylor Richards wrote:
>
> > Finally got a long enough break to get the B5 stuff posted...
>
> Cool... I never got around to getting the B5 mod to run on my system.
>
> I asked this question before and didn't see an answer:
>
> Is it "legal" to distribute FS2 with a total conversion like B5? My goal
> for this would be to provide a package that could be downloaded and played
> by people at a LAN party. I'd have to provide an executable for at least
> Win32 and Linux...
>
> It looks to me like even with B5, you need a significant amount of files
> from the base FS2 install. Is there a list somewhere of what's "open
> source" and what isn't? Am I correct in saying that the FS2 code was
> released "open source" but the game media - graphics, sounds and such -
> was not?
>
> -dc
>
>