Re: Bug#662923: Please advise if fheroes2 is suitable for non-free?
Hello,
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:54:40 Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> I assume you would have to link the non-commercial AI with the GPL game
>> engine? You would not be able to distribute the resulting binaries as
>> the GPL does not allow licensing part of the program under a
>> GPL-incompatible license.
>
> Thanks, Ansgar.
>
> Sadly this is the case...
>
> But does it, (or does it not) make the game unsuitable for non-free?
>
> Apparently author's intent is to enforce non-commercial restriction to the
> binaries.
It makes at least binaries, and most probably the source code
non-distributable. To the point that upstream CANNOT distribute it
;-)... GPL was designed precisely to prevent that kind of situation.
Hence even non-free is completely out of question.
It may be worth signaling that to upstream, that will have either to
choose to relicense the AI or relicense the GPLed code or rewrite the
AI, for anyone to be able to legally use the game.
Cheers,
Vincent
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