I think this wold be problematic, and integraitoninto some distros (like Fedora, or Debin) would be problematic, because of licensing problems. and this wold lead to the need to use two different data packages, dhich wold not be very comfortable for packagesrs, but would be the only way. Anyway, packagers wold do that, but some feature should be integrated into the game, to ensure the correct workong of the game, eveen if some sond/weapon graphics/maps/sgh else is not present. this wold be the real problem, therefor I suggest to use only GPL, and enable different livencing only for maps, which, perharps have less impact on the overall game experiencs, than annoying soundless weapons,, with messages like: "Sorry, but no sounds instaled for this weapon, because licensing problems. Please install the wormux-data-cc package"
I mean, this wold be so stupid, and the game is so cool, why make trouble about stupid tings like this. Matthias, and other core developers should state, that contribution to the core system MUST be GPL, for data (and not weapons, or make the weapons system completely modular). And maybe the gentleman, who contributed the riot bomb, should consider re-licenceing his work in GPL, to help the development of wormux, not to halt it, with useless conversation. I unfortnately don't know c++, but in c i know how would I do it. weapoms wold be .so files, and I'd use dlopen to acess them. all in subdirs, and their other data wold be there. At startup, I'd load them. But once I've rad, that dynamic linking is problematic/tricky in c++. Donow. This is only my idea. Perharps you do know a better solution, but could you share it with me, as I don't undetrstand the code. 2006. 06. 15, csütörtök keltezéssel 10.31-kor Alexandre Sauvé ezt írta: > Matthieu Fertré a écrit : > > > All the data we want to use are "free" (as in freedom) but are not > > equally licensed. Currently, we have only GPL data. But we should add > > Creative Commons data, which is free data. But so, what is the license > > of a package which include data under GPL and data under Creatives > > Commons? This would be exactly the same problem if we want to mix GPL > > data and BSD data. > > In fact for the program package, the case is simple => GPL > > For the data package, the licencing is to be per file, and the global > availability of this package should be limited by the most restrictive > licence. > > Exemple : wikipedia > each file has it's own licence (creative commons most of time) > > I would suggest for wormux-data a license like this one : > << > This package is under GPL bla bla bla > For file using a different licencing, they come with a file.licence > for specific licencing details. > >> > Exemple 2: > lovely-gnu.gif > lovely-gnu.gif.licence.txt > - author : gnuman > - this file is under CC licence : > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/fr/ > > As most files files under creative commons are freely redistributable, > the sharing of wormux-data will not be a problem. > The files which are not freely redistributables should obviously be > avoided. > > Hope this can help a bit. > >
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