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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Darkhill on August 01, 2004, 04:44:57 pm

Title: What license is FSO under?
Post by: Darkhill on August 01, 2004, 04:44:57 pm

We are debating on how to distribute our source code.  So what license if any is FSO under?

Title: What license is FSO under?
Post by: Scuddie on August 01, 2004, 04:55:15 pm

AFAIK, the source was released as Open with Volition owning the code rights, and later it was GPL'd.  Hope this helps :).

Title: What license is FSO under?
Post by: ChronoReverse on August 01, 2004, 04:59:31 pm

FSO is gpl'ed?

Title: What license is FSO under?
Post by: Solatar on August 01, 2004, 05:02:14 pm

Indeed, first I've heard that it was GPL.


I'm not quite up to speed on all of this, but is GPL anything to do with GNU?

Title: What license is FSO under?
Post by: karajorma on August 01, 2004, 05:47:05 pm

It's not GPL. It's close but not quite.

The FSO source can't be used in any for profit way. I don't know if you have to distribute the source though like you have to with GPL.

Title: What license is FSO under?
Post by: Darkhill on August 01, 2004, 05:59:13 pm

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Originally posted by karajorma
It's not GPL. It's close but not quite.

The FSO source can't be used in any for profit way. I don't know if you have to distribute the source though like you have to with GPL.

Thats what we were wondering.  Since we are working of full game for our club we don't really want to release the source code for cheating purposes.  But if it is GPL and we have to release the code then we will.

Title: What license is FSO under?
Post by: Taristin on August 01, 2004, 06:43:03 pm

I don't think you have to... but I know nothing about law... :p

Title: What license is FSO under?
Post by: Fractux on August 01, 2004, 06:55:24 pm

The scentence in the released V source code didn't say you had to release your source code, just that you couldn't sell it.

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 * All source code herein is the property of Volition, Inc. You may not sell
 * or otherwise commercially exploit the source or things you created based on the
 * source.

Title: What license is FSO under?
Post by: KARMA on August 02, 2004, 06:41:56 am

I think that there are the terms of use in all the source files, btw it's not gpl afaik (or people would be able to sell it;))

Title: What license is FSO under?
Post by: Darkhill on August 02, 2004, 10:09:35 am

One of the finer points of the GPL is that if one of the coders wants his code as GPL then basically everybody else does too.  So if one of the FSO is using the GPL then other works using that code must follow it as well.  This is what I've been lead to believe, if its true or not I don't know.

Title: What license is FSO under?
Post by: kasperl on August 02, 2004, 10:21:40 am

If you use GPL code, the entire thing has to be GPL. At least, that's AFAIK. I last read the license over a year ago. No-one here should have used GPL code, because then the GPL license and the :V: license conflict. GPL allows money to be made from the code, :V: explicilty forbids it.