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« on: April 16, 2008, 08:55:52 AM »
Hello. Who would I speak with concerning porting and license questions with OpenArena? I want to port OA for commercial use. I have read the "about" but need things clarified by the P.I.C. Thanks.
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« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2008, 09:40:25 AM »
Open Arena is licensed under the GPL which allows commercial use (see the license text here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)

If you wish to distribute under a different license then you must obtain written permission from all of the contributors to the project including all coders, mappers, artists, etc. was well as from Id software.
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« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2008, 10:09:10 AM »
Thanks would u consider porting to a mobile device falling under the first license for commercial use?
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« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2008, 03:40:20 PM »
yes that's totally ok, as long as you redistribute it under the same licence (GPL) and release the modified source code.
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« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2008, 04:20:49 PM »
The main thing you can't do is :
Selling openarena without giving its ported source code.

I suppose you can port the source code to any architecture you wish.
Once you've done this, you'll have to distribute explicitely under GPL licence your source code, modifications included.
I'm not a lawyer nor even a developper, just a simple OA player, but you should get a good understanding on what GPL and free softwares are.
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« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2008, 06:46:27 PM »
Thanks guys for the answers I have a better understanding now.
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« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2008, 06:16:50 AM »
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comercial use? wow... oa has come a far way Smiley
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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2008, 03:32:25 AM »
going to try and revive this topic due to a new question. Ok so I know that I can port OA for commercial use but what about the maps? Are they included?
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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2008, 04:09:37 AM »
Quote from: nevermore on April 24, 2008, 03:32:25 AM
going to try and revive this topic due to a new question. Ok so I know that I can port OA for commercial use but what about the maps? Are they included?
i think so they should be cuz the maps are released under GPL....i think (i don't no much about the CopyRight things so don't get ur answer from this post Smiley )
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« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2008, 12:34:44 PM »
Anything which is contained in the ZIP file you get from this website is under GPL. Maps are included.
Unless you got some maps from somewhere else on the internet ...
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