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Garux / netradiant-custom

The open-source, cross-platform level editor for id Tech based games.
https://garux.github.io/NRC/
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Last of @illwieckz updates to the packs. #10

Closed NeonKnightOA closed 6 years ago

Garux commented 6 years ago

@NeonKnightOA i squashed all these edits to single commit for cleaner history (hopefully everything went fine:3) btw: can you shed some light on topic of q3pack being proprietary? I'm not experienced in this question; What files are proprietary? What files are ok to include in releases?

NeonKnightOA commented 6 years ago

From what I've read on the OpenArena forum, the problem lies in the entity files (entities.def/entities.ent). Some help texts are not in the source files and are considered "original work". This was why the devs of NetRadiant asked for a GPL'd Quake III pack.

It's also the reason why I've started a repo for a purely GPLv2 pack for OA. @sago007 wrote a script to extract the comments from the relevant files in the source code and generate the entity files from there. This also has the benefit of consistency across the entity files, as previously some entities were absent from the original entity files (namely the Missionpack entities and the OA-specific game objectives -domination_point, info_player_dd_blue/red and info_player_dom_blue/red-).

http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=2722.0

Garux commented 6 years ago

Ic this note:

the license of the original Q3 pack is not clearly stated anywhere

+.def and .ent were distributed along with Radiants 1.4/1.6 and 1.5 (licensed under GPL) Is it legit to distribute proprietary texts with GPL soft?

Also Wolf, ET, JA packs are included in 1.6 releases, but marked, as proprietary here Also we are missing link to UrT pack :)

NeonKnightOA commented 6 years ago

Well, the source files for the three test maps (q3dm1, q3dm7 and q3dm17) and the terrain demo for Team Arena plus all of their respective assets were also distributed in that gamepack, yet (as far as I recall) those maps aren't exactly GPL'd. The same case can be done for the entity files, considering that, during a long time, OA's gamepack license couldn't be cleared off because those files were extracted directly from Q3. So the safer choice was to assume those packs are propietary.