[freespace2] licensing question

[Taylor Richards]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 05:17, Mihai Rusu wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Im curently working on making a nice "ebuild" file to get freespace2 into 
> gentoo (I will probably make the same thing for OpenFS2 after I get to 
> test it for a while). I need to know what license is the freespace2 
> sources distributed ? Has its own license (in which case I need a file 
> with the license text) or it uses an existent license ? (in which case 
> which one?).

It's released with this:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright (C) Volition, Inc. 1999.  All rights reserved.
 
All source code herein is the property of Volition, Inc. You may not
sell or otherwise commercially exploit the source or things you created
based on the source.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

So if you don't make any money off of it and accept that Volition can
pretty much do what they want with any changes to the game then there is
no problem distributing the source.  Game data is another issue though,
it's definitely not free.  But if you just distribute the source you
shouldn't have any problems.


Taylor

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Taylor Richards <mtrs at bellsouth.net>