[Scummvm-devel] DiscWorld license

[Torbjorn.E.Andersson at personec.com]

Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:

> "In short, we have all the approval needed to move forward with 
> supporting the game and making Discworld freeware. However Discworld is 
> NOT freeware at the moment. It may be in the future, assuming all goes 
> according to plan.
> We may not be able to wing a DFSG/OSI compatible license on this one, 
> although I'll surely try."
> 
> That last sentence causes me big pains. Essentially, if that is the 
> case, getting the DW source is completely useless for us. We wouldn't 
> be able to host such a non-OSI DW source as part of ScummVM, probably 
> not even on SF.net

I assumed the "non-OSI" part referred to DiscWorld (the game), not Tinsel
(the engine). Or at the very least not to whatever Tinsel-compatible engine
ScummVM would eventually contain, if this thing works out.

Torbjörn