[Scummvm-devel] license clarification in FAQ

Johannes Schickel lordhoto at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 17:44:24 CET 2012


On 02/08/2012 04:13 PM, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote:
> Q: Since ScummVM is GPL, don't games supported by ScummVM also have to
> open-sourced?
>
> A: No. Parallel to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL ,
> game scripts are considered to be data, and are not covered by the
> open-source requirements of the GPL. This is the case no matter if ScummVM is
> distributed together with the game or not. Of course this does not affect
> the other requirements the GPL has for distributing ScummVM.
>

Sounds good, but maybe the last sentence should be changed to something 
in the lines of:

"Of course ScummVM itself is always distributed under the GPL."

That IMHO makes the sentence a bit clearer, especially "the other 
requirements" seems odd in the current version.

// Johannes




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