On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:31:19 -0400 Christian Ohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Saturday, 23 September 2006 at 0:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I just had a thought, perhaps we can get ahold of: >> >> http://www.fsf.org/about/contact.html >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for questions about the GPL and free >software >> licensing > >Now that's actually a good idea (and one I should have had >myself...) - >just make it the FSF Europe - ask them about a) what they make of >the >readme.txt and b) how to proceed. Should be the best legal advice >we can >get for free. > >> Worst case scenerio is we can ONLY distribute the source >code/bins >> of the source code, and that is it, then we leave it up to the >end- >> users to get the data off of warzone demo or the official CD >> release, or have some repository that can hold the data we now >have >> there. > >But then we can scrap the whole project. We have already modified >the >data, we even scrapped the WDG format that's used on the CDs, so >for our >current SVN, the CDs are useless. And it degrades us into the role >of >curators, we can just keep the game running on modern systems >instead of >evolving it. > Ugh. Yeah, that would be true. Digging through logs/e-mails @ berlios & RTS forums, seems that Qamly was to blame for this. Looks like the GPL issue was either ignored, or they didn't look at it close enough. :( His reason was we needed a format that was easy to modify/change. Does anyone have whatever he used to convert the wdg files to zip files? Someone must, since the map pack was made ?
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