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Technical infos of open source games.
https://trilarion.github.io/opensourcegames/
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OpenRPG license #90

Closed Trilarion closed 5 years ago

Trilarion commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/Trilarion/opensourcegames/blob/master/games/framework/open_rpg.md does not seem to have license information attached to the source code

Contact the author(s) and ask for clarification and/or possibility to add a suitable license.

Trilarion commented 6 years ago

I wrote a message to posterboy (https://sourceforge.net/u/posterboy/profile/) via Sourceforge messages.

Also related to this project (https://sourceforge.net/projects/jopenrpg/).

Trilarion commented 5 years ago

I didn't get a reply from posterboy for over a month.

Trilarion commented 5 years ago

I never got a reply. Could try to contact another author or could search again at the various places if sources with copyright notices can be found.

Trilarion commented 5 years ago

The SVN at the Sourceforge project (https://sourceforge.net/p/openrpg/svn/HEAD/tree/) has actually license information (GPL2), updated last 2013-10-23. The latest code seems to be in Java.

The CVS at the Sourceforge project (https://sourceforge.net/p/openrpg/cvs/) I cannot browse online. Have to convert later and have a look.

On the Sourceforge project download area (https://sourceforge.net/projects/openrpg/files/openrpg/) there are versions up to 1.7.1, released in 2007-03. It is written in Python and has GPL2 copyright notices.

On the assembla project download area (https://app.assembla.com/spaces/openrpg/documents) there is version 1.8.0, released in 2010-05. It is written in Python and has GPL2 copyright notices. There is also a mercurial repository (https://app.assembla.com/spaces/openrpg/mercurial/source) with commits until 2010-04.

The Traipse fork (https://app.assembla.com/spaces/traipse/mercurial/source) has commits until 2011-01 and a Github import at (https://github.com/dkrisman/Traipse). It is also written in Python and has the GPL2 license.

Chris Davis (posterboy on Sourceforge) might still be available through his website (http://www.rpgobjects.com/index.php?c=orpg).

Trilarion commented 5 years ago

All in all this sounds rather positive. The project is clearly open source and there are plenty of sources available. Converting the CVS, SVN and HG repositories to Git in a meaningful way will be a bit of work, but worthwhile because the license situation is clear.

I will perform a conversion/integration to Git, add a meaningful readme and then try get information about past authors and inform them about it.

Trilarion commented 5 years ago

I performed the conversion and put the resulting repository at https://gitlab.com/osgames/openrpg. I informed two authors (Chris Davis (posterboy) and digitalxero) that I could find contact information of and I updated the entry here.