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robo9k / WoPPack

World of Padman gamepack for NetRadiant
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Clarify license #1

Open robo9k opened 10 years ago

robo9k commented 10 years ago

As with most World of Padman things the license of the files is unclear.

It might be sufficient to ask kai-li@worldofpadman.net to re-license, as he appears to be the orignal author/maintainer. Parts of e.g. entities.def might have been taken from Quake 3, with unclear license as well (and that's the only file with enough content to cross the threshold of originality).

The license should be compatible (e.g. for default inclusion in NetRadiant) with GPL (v2+), but could be BSD/MIT or even CC0 as well.

robo9k commented 10 years ago

I've double checked with ttimo and he again stated that the Q3Pack is licensed under the MOD SDK EULA for Quake III Arena, which can be read at e.g. http://www.urbanterror.info/support/202-quake-3-sdk/

This also means that entities.def most likely can not be re-licensed, as it's based on the Q3Pack one. It should be possible to create it from scratch, using the same file format, but different wording.

robo9k commented 10 years ago

It appears like the friendly guys from OpenArena have a way to extract their entities.def from the gamecode comments, see http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=2722.msg51130#msg51130 and https://github.com/OpenArena/gamecode/commit/b7ad35187949bc457b667802374b0fe1465f717a There are however things like _skybox or _decal which should be in entities.def, but are q3map2 only, not gamecode.