[Nix-dev] Re: Nixpkg for Warsow

Nicolas Pierron nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 00:40:56 CET 2009


On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 00:27, Alexander Tsamutali <astsmtl at yandex.ru> wrote:
> ludo at gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>>     license = [ "GPLv2" "unfree-redistributable" ];
>>
>> What does this mean exactly?
>
> The engine is based in Q2 source release and thus is GPLv2. Game media is
> under some self-invented non-free license. It allows redistribution and
> you can even use this media in you own works (maps, mods, gametype
> scripts). You cannot do derivatives though.

The list of license is usually used when software are distributed
under multiple licenses where you can pick the one you want.  So you
should download the sources in 2 different parts or change the license
field to the most restrictive one.

The license field is not fully expressive yet.


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