Re: [freesci-develop] Proposal for new direction of the project

[Zeed Dark]

Hi all,

I'm Karim, I study with Jordi and I'm also interested with this project.

On 11/6/06, Christoph Reichenbach wrote:
>   IANAL, but my understanding is that
>   (a) all the engines presently supported by ScummVM are supported because
>       the ScummVM team has legal arrangements with the original authors or
>       because they're clean-room (which might be the case wrt Sarien).
>   (b) dependencies matter:  If FreeSCI was to depend exclusively on _clean_
>       ScummVM modules, then it _should_ be possible to avoid any legal
>       and practical problems by forking off again and copying those clean
>       modules.  (Of course, I'm only using logic, as opposed to the letter of
>       the law, to arrive at this conclusion.)
>
>   I strongly recommend you to look into the legal questions first-- if
> _either_ of the above assertions is satisfied, then there should not be a
> problem.  But note that you guys don't want to be sued by over-zealous lawyers
> either...

Thank you very much for your explanations and advices. We'll try to
get right way for everyone. Next we'll speak with scummVM team about
these issues.

Regards,

Karim.