> > http://icculus.org/~icculus/dotplan/ET-COPYING.txt > > You can't say "this is GPL3 licensed, oh, but delete this section and use > this text instead." I mean, you _can_, but then you can't intermingle it > with other GPL code. Basically, it's not the GPL3 license anymore once you > make modifications to it...and all versions of the GPL explicit require that > you not add new restrictions to the license.
I would suggest you re-read the GPL 3, it specifically allows additional terms to be included. As none of the _additional_ terms from Zenimax violate any of the terms of the GPL 2, I fail to see why you couldn't use the source from one in the other. > tl;dr: you can't intermingle the open source releases of ET and Quake3 at > all. Yes you can, you just have to use the terms of the ET license for your distribution. For an answer that isn't just an opinion, ask Zenimax iD if they will sue for using source from their latest releases in their earlier release in a non-commercial, open source project. I'm betting they'll be fine with it, and THAT is what matters. _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
