In my opinion there is no way to consider that this deal was morally right, there was people who were contributing code on a daily basis for *years*, the least you will expect is to get some sort of notification if someone is about to make money out of your hard work. Not a single developer knew about the Nexuiz deal, not a single notification was sent, most of us knew about it when we saw the the homepage was changed, only providing a small link to "Nexuiz GPL" at the bottom. He can't really say that the original plan was to contact every developer, the deal was made in complete and absolute secret. Just don't copy the code verbatim, or in such as a fashion as to be considered a direct copy.Ī reasonable person could see the GPL as encouraging the re-use of ideas, whether by modifying the original code and redistributing it, or by re-implementing those ideas in new code. So there ya go- have fun studying, examining reduplicating the functionality, style and format of the code in question. And since it expressly doesn't restrict you in areas other than those 3, you're free to examine and study it to your heart's content. So GPL code doesn't have restrictions on things other than copy, distro, and mods. Once you accept GPL as the basis for your work, you don't get to distribute the modified work with extra terms. GPL code doesn't have additional restrictions on it. "You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. So the GPL doesn't limit your rights for things outside of copying, distro and mods. "Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are notĬovered by this License they are outside its scope." ![]() Under the terms of this General Public License." "This License applies to any program or other work which containsĪ notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed The complete letter and background details are on the Alientrap forum page.From paragraph 0 of the GPL v2, thanks for the link, btw. They would like IllFonic to re-release the old homepage and market the commercial project under a different name. However, he failed to tell them that the game was to be marketed under the same name, thereby virtually undermining the open source version.Ī few members of the Nexuiz community thus addressed IllFonic and Vermeulen in an open letter with their concerns. Apparently Vermeulen had asked a few developers if it were alright to use the code for commercial projects and that most agreed to it. IllFonic wants to market Nexuiz as a commercial game on Playstations and other consoles. The founder of the game, Lee Vermeulen, according to an open letter to the community and IllFonic, who stopped contributing to the project four years ago, sold the domain to the Colorado-based video game developer IllFonic. What many developers and Nexuiz enthusiasts were expecting to be an announcement for a new version ended up being a disappointment. ![]() The domain was meanwhile sold to IllFonic and the game will be sold commercially. A link at the top of the page points to the Alientrap webpage for the original open source game. ![]() Visitors to the new Nexuiz homepage will find, instead of the usual downloads, an ad for a new game.
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