[freespace2] licensing question

[Edward Gardner]

And, obviously, any creadit to the FS2 Open team for either the source or
the media VP's would be appreciated, if and when you get to that ;)

But, yeah, Taylor's right, the game data it self is non-redistributeable,
but Interplay has re-released for cheap on their site. People frequently
site the "make a backup clause" as implicit permission to redistribute, but
they are wrong, licensing just doesn't work that way.

But distribute the binaries as much as you want :) I think even some of the
mods are getting close to being standalone games, so, you might ask them and
be able to include them in any pre-packaged release :)

Edward "Inquisitor" Gardner
Project Facilitator
Freespace 2 Source Code Project
inquisitor at deckersds.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taylor Richards" <mtrs at bellsouth.net>
To: "Freespace2 Mailing List" <freespace2 at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [freespace2] licensing question


> 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
>
> -- 
> Taylor Richards <mtrs at bellsouth.net>
>
>