On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:25:47 +0200 Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 12:52, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > An alternative could be persuading upstream to relicense both engine
> > (client+server) and data in a DFSG-free manner.
> > For instance, everything could be re-released under the ZLIB license
> > (and provided with source code, of course!).
> >
> > Let's not give up before even trying!
[...]
> Cube data files copyright are hold by a large amount of contributors.
> The majority of the works are under non free licenses. Relicensing is
> IMO a very hard task. I've important difficulty to contact just 2
> authors... I can't imagine the work is it to contact every authors...
I see.
Thanks for having tried hard to have a reasonable discussion with the
main author.
And, above all things, thanks for clarifying the (horrible) licensing
status of a game that I used to wrongly believe to be free.
--
:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
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