Will stand alone TDM allow for 3rd party packaging?

[hobbes1069]

I know it will be some time before stand alone TDM is available, but being a Fedora packager I can't help but get excited about the possibility of being able to do:

 

yum install darkmod

 

Once stand alone is complete, are they any licensing issues? Will everything be GPL or other FOSS compatible?

 

Thanks,

Richard

[Tels]

The entire source code (and thus the DLL and EXE produced from them) are under the GPL 3 (or later). All the art assets will be (once we go standalone) be under the following license:

 

All maps, textures, models, def files, audio assets, and all other
non-software components of The Dark Mod are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license,
as specified at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode
and described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

 

So packaging will be possible.

[demagogue]

Technically the sourcecode is under GPL 3 plus a few tweaks by id, but they're all minor tweaks; nothing that would stop anyone from re-packaging it. All those licenses really do is require you to keep the attributions and not commercialize it or change the license.

[hobbes1069]

Awesome! I look forward to packaging it!

 

I guess at some point I need to look at this code to see what sort of build system is used for Linux...

 

Thanks,

Richard