[Scummvm-devel] DiscWorld license

[James Brown]

Indeed, this referred to the game data itself. In particular, whether we
are required to expressly prohibit all potential commercial use, which
would make the game data license incompatible.

The BASS/FOTAQ licenses are somewhat flimsy in that technically the
license allows for certain abuse of the commercial use clause in order
to retain OSI/DFSG compatibility. Since the preface is not legally
binding :)

I will clarify the wiki entry.

 - Ender

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 11:18 +0200, Torbjorn.E.Andersson at personec.com
wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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