DarkPlaces Dev Forest Hale Corrects Nexuiz GPL Stance

Time Doctor writes "There has been a lot of information going around about Nexuiz, the GPL, and what the Nexuiz leadership has done. A new interview has gone up with DarkPlaces developer Forest Hale to set things straight. Quoting: 'The original plan was to contact every developer and relicense the Nexuiz 2.5.2 GPL gamecode sources for this title, to ensure authentic gameplay and return some important features to the community for the benefit of everyone. However this gamecode re-licensing attempt did not go well; with the former developers making claims of violations there was no choice but to re-implement the gamecode from scratch on non-GPL sources. As a result there will be no ongoing code contributions back to the community, and the gameplay may differ more than originally planned. This is a very unfortunate outcome but has no significant impact on development. To make this perfectly clear – the game is being reimplemented from scratch; all they share is a name.'"

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Re:GPL freaks

[plasticsquirrel]

The Free Software Foundation basically started the community and created the GPL for it. In fact, in many cases, using the term "Free Software" is implying that someone sides with the FSF and GPL over other open source licenses. The GPL takes a hard-line stance against other licenses that would allow the code to be swallowed up and packaged into proprietary software. This is the natural policy for developers who want the code to always remain open.