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zzattack / ccmaps-net

Maps renderer for several Command & Conquer games
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Proper Attribution and Licensing for Third-Party Code #2

Closed Mailaender closed 11 years ago

Mailaender commented 11 years ago

We just noticed that you copied code from https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/tree/bleed/OpenRA.FileFormats You are free to use it under the terms of http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html Simply removing the copyright header, claiming that you are the only contributer and relicensing it to the MIT terms (removing all Copyleft) is not legally possible.

zzattack commented 11 years ago

@Mailaender: apologies for my negligence in this, it's been one of the things that has been on to to-do list for the longest time. I hope my commit addresses your issue in full, if not please get back to me, licensing is not my strong suit.

Mailaender commented 11 years ago

The MixFile.cs was the first thing I looked and and got suspicious. @chrisforbes also mentioned that the VirtualFileSystem looks like a heavily re-factored version of the OpenRA one.

Thanks for addressing this quickly. You could have advertised your project in the OpenRA community as this makes the often requested feature to add Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 support a lot more likely to implement.

Mailaender commented 11 years ago

https://code.google.com/p/xcc/ is also GPL v3 licensed and you need to ship a copy of the license like https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/master/COPYING with your code.

zzattack commented 11 years ago

Thanks, I hope I've caught most of it in 9151c02dcf. I will try to contact you about possible TS/RA2 support for OpenRA and the other issues you opened on Freenode soon if that's okay.

Mailaender commented 11 years ago

We already experimented a bit with the CLI tool http://www.sleipnirstuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=16164 and updated our https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/wiki/FAQ regarding next generation Westwood engine support.