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Revision as of 00:06, 8 April 2006
Odamex dutifully follows the guidelines of the GNU General Public License (GPL). As a result, the Odamex source will always be available for everybody to download, observe and modify.
GPL Compatability
However, the codebase for csDoom .62, the codebase from which Odamex origionally comes from, while GPL, was not, in actuality, GPL, since it had several parts to the code, with several licesnses to contend with:
- ZDoom 1.22, which was based on the origional relase of the Doom source under the Doom Educational License.
- QuakeWorld, which was relased under the GNU Public License.
- Heretic and Hexen code, which was a part of the source and was released with a seporate, GPL-incompatable license.
Unfortuniatly, in this day and age, having an invalid GPL license means that all of the advantages of releasing said source under GPL vanish until it can be rectified. Odamex has taken the following steps to ensure that it is compliant with the GPL.
- All code in ZDoom 1.22 that was added by Raven's team for Heretic or Hexen has either been totally removed or rewritten from scratch.
- Upon meeting of the above condition, the author of ZDoom 1.22 has agreed to licence the remaining code under the GPL.
- Although origionally released soley under Doom Educational License, the fact that Doom is now avalable under both Doom Educational License and GNU Public License allows the author of ZDoom 1.22 the right to choose either one.
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