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Re: advice regarding doom-engine licences



On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:36:10 +0200, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:

> I didn't check the sources, but from your description, if
> 
> Am Di, den 10.08.2004 schrieb Jon Dowland um 17:12:
> > They later released it under the GPL licence[2].
> 
> is true, then
> 
> > 1) [snip]
> 
> is not true, since if they distribute the whole source as GPL licenced,
> it does not matter if they also distribute it under a different licence
> - we just take and use the GPL and everything is fine.

Ah yes, but only the doom source was GPL'd, not the heretic/hexen
source, which is mixed with the doom source in the legacy package (and
in a variety of engines which are not packaged for debian).

-- 
Jon Dowland
dowland@gmail.com



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