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Re: Jagged Alliance 2 Source Code



Am Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007 schrieb Nic Suzor:
> On 7/4/07, Dennis Schridde <devurandom@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Is this thing (or any license in general, if that could be more easily
> > answered) somehow mixable with the GPL? Eg. that I publish my derived
> > work under the GPL and make an exception for Strategy First to grant them
> > what they want?
>
> The licence says:
> "3. That if you distribute the Software or any derivative works of the
> Software, you will distribute them using a verbatim copy of this
> License, and you will not grant any
> rights to the Software or derivative works that are broader than those
> provided by this Licensing Agreement. For example, you may not
> distribute any modifications of the Software under terms that would
> permit commercial use, or under terms that require the Software or
> such derivative works to be sublicensed to others."
>
> You can't publish a modified version of the work with anything that is
> mixable with the GPL. Unless you published your changes in the form of
> patches only, and even then, only if those patches don't infrnige the
> copyright in the game at all.
>
> hope this helps,
Thanks.
The license seems pretty crappy then... (compared to other games where the 
sourcecode became available)

--Dennis

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