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Actually, that's trickier than it sounds. The original licenses for the Descent/Freespace source releases prohibit commercial use from what I recall. Unwindin
by binarycrusader 11y ago
Actually, that's trickier than it sounds. The original licenses for the Descent/Freespace source releases prohibit commercial use from what I recall.
Unwinding that licensing mess so that they could use it is likely not worth the return on investment.
- lotharbot 11y agoThey've already tracked down the original license holders/issuers in order to release the software in the first place. It seems to me like it would be orders of magnitude less work to contact a source port author and get all parties to agree to a simple modified license that would allow for source modifications to be included in the bundle. (The original Parallax license for Descent, as well as the Rebirth modification to it, can be found at https://github.com/CDarrow/DXX-Retro/blob/master/COPYING.txt https://github.com/CDarrow/DXX-Retro/blob/master/COPYING.txt . I'm not sure it would even need to be modified -- it prohibits "end users" from using it for revenue-generating purposes, but doesn't prohibit the original rights holders from bundling that end-user code with the original software.)