Enemy Territory is open source, but is this open source like Linux or other programms under the GNU-GPL? My question is if i am generally allowed to take other modifcations like ETPro or TC:E as basic for my own mod.
As example: I would like to modificate and improve TC:E and bring it out on an other or abutted name (example: TCE Pro). Is this allowed without messages to the Developer of this Mod like by Linux and programms under the GNU-GPL? :???:
greetings, John
The ET game code is available for modders, but ET isn’t open source. I’m not really sure what the license on the game code is, but mods aren’t required to distribute source to anyone, and ETPro at least, does not release source, for various reasons.
My question is if i am generally allowed to take other modifcations like ETPro or TC:E as basic for my own mod.
Not without the mod authors’ permission.
Primarilly, such action would be “bad form” ( bad etiquette), but it could also lead to copyright issues.
Now, before you lot go into one about that statement, hear me out.
While no one but the developers can claim copyright on the original code, anything a modder ADDS is implicitly copyrighted as “intellectual property”. Likewise, any models, graphics, etc. that are added are also the “intellectual property” of the modder. If you take their code and use it yourself without their consent, you are effectively breaching their copyright.
As zinx said, mods are not required to be open source, and many are not.
Have you thought about contacting the TC:E developers about your ideas - They might be willing to incorporate them, or give you permission to do it yourself.
Here is a copy of the WET Source licence (old ET MOD SDK):
http://playubot.free.fr/forums/License.rtf
I am not a lawyer but i think the primary objective of this license is to let you “modding” as you want only if you don’t sell what you have done. Unless there is a subtlety i don’t have understood.
