Re: [Nel] Will Saga of Ryzoom ver go completley opensource or?

[Rodrigo Hernandez]

Hello Mark,

I really don't know, I am just playing with NeL as well, but I will tell 
you how I think it goes.

Nevrax developed NeL and Ryzom, they hold the copyright for both and as 
such they have the right to keep Ryzom closed source
even thought it uses NeL, which is GPL, they may even sell closed source 
licenses for NeL if they so want to (ID does that with the Quake engines).

Everyone else using the source must release the new code (if they are going 
to distribute a binary), so the way to make some money from it would be to 
copyright your data (artwork, literary work) and once you have a working 
game charge for the use of said data, not the game itself, so if you don't 
mind others looking at your code, you can make a commercial game with NeL, 
the only issue I can see is that  having the code available to the public 
will definitely make lives easier for cheaters.


At 09:25 AM 11/6/2004, you wrote:
> Will Saga of Ryzoom ever go completely opensource or is that not needed?
>
> -Mark
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Rodrigo Hernandez, lonewolf programmer
Aeon Games
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