http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib_License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/, are what i am assuming assaultcube uses, if im wrong please correct me. i too would like to understand the proper licensing ac undergoes so i do not make any false assumptions
i dont see how undead is wrong; if so, could you please explain why he is wrong so others will not make the same mistake? many of the common ac population assume its 100% free and open source, so if there is something that refutes that, shouldnt we all know what it is about?
Edit by stef:
You are wrong. AC does not use zlib license. The license for all parts of the source code is in the file source/README_CUBEENGINE.txt and it is /based/ on zlib. One difference is, that it does not allow changing the license. The license does NOT allow the code to be relicensed under GPL. If you do, you violate the original license and therefore you are violating the copyright.
The media files have many different licensing schemes. Some of them are /only/ covered by the general AC packaging license, which can be found in docs/license.html, section "The entire AssaultCube package". It states clearly, that it only allows the distribution of the UNMODIFIED package. So, if you distribute a mod, and include all files of the original package without getting explicit permission for each and every file, you are violating copyright.
i dont see how undead is wrong; if so, could you please explain why he is wrong so others will not make the same mistake? many of the common ac population assume its 100% free and open source, so if there is something that refutes that, shouldnt we all know what it is about?
Edit by stef:
You are wrong. AC does not use zlib license. The license for all parts of the source code is in the file source/README_CUBEENGINE.txt and it is /based/ on zlib. One difference is, that it does not allow changing the license. The license does NOT allow the code to be relicensed under GPL. If you do, you violate the original license and therefore you are violating the copyright.
The media files have many different licensing schemes. Some of them are /only/ covered by the general AC packaging license, which can be found in docs/license.html, section "The entire AssaultCube package". It states clearly, that it only allows the distribution of the UNMODIFIED package. So, if you distribute a mod, and include all files of the original package without getting explicit permission for each and every file, you are violating copyright.