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Croteam-official / Serious-Engine

An open source version of a game engine developed by Croteam for the classic Serious Sam games.
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License of LightWave SDK #1

Open hpvb opened 8 years ago

hpvb commented 8 years ago

Thanks for freeing the serious engine! I was just wondering what license the LightWave SDK is under. The README only states it's 'not under the GPLv2', but there is no different licensing information available.

SLAwww commented 8 years ago

We contacted NewTek, and they briefly replied it is okay to use the LightWave SDK as long as the copyright information in their files remains untouched.

Ragora commented 8 years ago

So what does that mean? Do whatever with it unrestricted, just leave the copyright information alone?

SLAwww commented 8 years ago

That was basically all their reply, yes.

hpvb commented 8 years ago

It would be very helpful if they could maybe formalize that under a 2 or 3 clause BSD license, I'd be a little worried about distributing the serious engine with such a vague promise.

SLAwww commented 8 years ago

Actually, LWSkaExporter is not a vital part of the engine. It's a plugin for LightWave that allows you to import models from that program. Serious Engine can totally run without it, and you can just remove LWSkaExporter if you are worried.

Ragora commented 8 years ago

It's not the idea of it being a critical part of the engine. It's just wanting to have more concrete terms to use the LightWave SDK on than just "some guy said to just do this". I personally am not interested in the SDK, but it would be useful for those that are.