[quake3] Re: Greetings

[Anthony J. Benik]

Erik K. wrote:
> On 17-4-2008 18:07, Anthony J. Benik wrote:
>> Just FYI
> 
> I thought about this some more and have come to the conclusion ...
> Thanks Anthony.
> 

No Prob.  Btw, (no offense Tim but) Tim's not an agent of the copyright 
holder(s) of the q3 engine even if its released under GPL... So from 
what I can tell ID software would have to sue UrbanTerror if anybody did 
at all, unlikely because UT is non-commercial (that is if the case fell 
to the a US jurisdiction (where q3 was made) and I am interpreting 
correctly).

I personally think UT should GPL their source and might boycott their 
mod until they do...

However, having said the above, I'll defend the developer's of UT's 
liberty do do what they want with their hard work so long as they are 
within their rights...  Put yourself in their shoes, would you want to 
sink all that time into a project just to have my it taken from you?

;) If UT would smarten up one day their mod might have more developers 
and go farther...  I am by no means the only person who looks for GPL 
before contributing and UrbanTerror's licensing may prevent patching 
from GPL mod sources meaning they may have to 'reinvent the wheel' where 
other GPL projects may freely share their patches.



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