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Free 3D MMORPG Planeshift Ported To Mac OS X

Posted by timothy on from the imaginary-creatures-dying-in-droves dept.

superfebs writes "While Planeshift, the free (yes, as in Freedom, who cares otherwise) 3D MMORPG, is moving towards the 0.3 version, which will provide combat (read: flows of fresh blood), the current release has been ported to Mac OS X. Now more people can enjoy going around in a fantasy world chatting with others and collecting crystals. Oh, beta testers are needed."

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  1. Planeshift is not free as in Freedom by maxgilead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Planeshift as a project has three licenses - code is under GPL (free), art (music, sound, maps, models, textures) are under Planeshift license (non-free), I'm not sure about the third one.

    Quoting from Planeshift license:

    "You may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, sell, participate in the transfer or sale or reproduce, create Derivative Works from, distribute, perform, display or in any way exploit any of the Material released under this License unless expressly permitted by the PlaneShift Team."

    That's free as in Freedom?! Free as in beer sure, but not as in Freedom, not even close. I wish all the best to Planeshift team, just let's not pretend its Free as in Freedom project when it's not.