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Nexuiz Founder Licenses It For Non-GPL Use
King InuYasha writes "Nexuiz founder Lee Vermuelen, along with several other core developers, have licensed the Nexuiz name, Nexuiz.com domain, and DarkPlaces engine to Illfonic in a deal to get Nexuiz on consoles. However, the kink is that the engine has been licensed for non-GPL usage. That is, Illfonic has no intention of contributing their code back to the main GPL Nexuiz project. As a result, Nexuiz has been forked into a new project called Xonotic. While the main Nexuiz site doesn't mention that Illfonic has no intention of contributing back, the Xonotic project FAQ explains what's going on. Additionally, the Xonotic project states that Illfonic 'may be in violation of the GPL as most contributors to the Nexuiz codebase have not relicensed their work for inclusion in a closed-source project.'"
One different than the one I do.
Because your freedom seems to come with restrictions.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95
Someone mod this pathetic troll down.
DRM restricts use, GPL does not.
Futhermore these Nexuiz idiots are not the creators of this code, it comes from quake 1.
The general argument over the restrictions in GPL that bother people revolve entirely around the fact that GPL tries to make everything else exactly like itself.
If you want to use GPL you have to be GPL, nothing else is acceptable! No exceptions, and my god will the uber geeks with no life go off on you if you make one little mistake. You won't even know someone found a snippet of GPL code in your stuff before you've been DDoSed off the Internet.
GPL people are almost in entirety fanatical idiots. There are a few people and companies that aren't, but they are few and far between and for every good thing they do, there are 50 idiot things that GPL fanboys do to scare everyone else off.
Even Microsoft will let you use their code with other peoples code under different license agreements, they may not let their code be open, but they don't prevent you from using it just because you want to use some other open source block of code. Conversely, with GPL not only does all the code have to be open, it pretty much HAS to be GPL or a GPL derivative.
When Microsoft is more open and less restrictive than you are, then you need to take a deep breath and think before the next time you brag about how open or free your virus of a license is.
GPL isn't a license, its an infection, and thats the sticking point.
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Apache/BSD gives you more freedoms than GPL does and mandates fewer restrictions. Those are simple facts that all but fanboys can easily understand.