[quake3] Re: Greetings

[Anthony J. Benik]

Russell Valentine wrote:
> Anthony J. Benik wrote:
>> 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).
>>
> 
> You are wrong, the modifications the ioquake team has done are not owned 
> by ID Software. There are multiple copyright holders, and ID Software is 
> "one" of them.
> 

OH, my mistake!  I'm sorry I thought UrT was using the original q3 
engine.  I obviously misunderstood the issue.  I now see UrT is using 
ioq3 as their engine's code base.  So then the topic is are they 
separate products or not.

In that case all the copyright holders might have to agree to sue on the 
topic of the whole engine or ... any individual group might sue under 
the part of the code they are a derivative author for.


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