On 10/03/2010 09:33, Zachary wrote:
On Mar 9, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Tei wrote:
Nexuiz is one of the "enginemods" (much like Alien Arena or others )
that spawned from the Quake engine. It use the Quake1 based heavily
modified DarkPlaces engines.
I find this concept vaguely objectionable. Though I really do wish them the
best of luck in their endeavors.
"vaguely"? I think it's morally objectionable, and maybe even legally
objectionable.
Someone commented on the Nexuiz forums that "Everyone that committed to
SVN darkplaces assigned their copyright to, I think, LH, as a condition
for their commit access. So, no, no legal problem there." But it's
definitely not the case. I know I didn't, and my name and copyright are
still in various DP source files.
I have nothing but respect for LordHavoc and his work, so I'm just going
to ignore the whole thing. But clearly, from now on I'll be way more
careful and explicit when working for an open source project about the
exact legal terms that will apply to my contributions. And I bet a lot
of Nexuiz contributors will do the same.
Still, best of luck to them. They will need it in this industry.
How does the IOQ3 project handle the copyright question BTW? I always
thought that contributors kept the copyright on their code, but now I'm
wondering.
--
Mathieu Olivier <moliv...@users.sourceforge.net>
Do not insult the crocodile until you've crossed the river.
African proverb
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