[GZG] Licensing for Full Thrust Game Server

2 posts · Oct 22 2008 to Nov 17 2008

From: Ernest Prabhakar <ernest.prabhakar@g...>

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:42:07 -0700

Subject: [GZG] Licensing for Full Thrust Game Server

Hi all,

I'm proposing the following license terms for my Full Thrust Game Server. In
order to best protect GZG's rights, I'm using the Common Public Attribution
License (CPAL) and naming GZG as the "Original Developer", which means that
all developers would need to attribute
GZG in their applications.  I've also placed the "content" under a non-
commercial license.

Does that seem reasonable to everyone? Also, is this an appropriate usage of
the GZG logo?

http://fullthrust.wordpress.com/licenses/

Thanks,
-- Ernie P.

Licenses The Full Thrust Game Server (FTGS) is based on the Full Thrust Light
ruleset, which Ground Zero Games has released for non-commercial use.

To honor that restriction, FTGS uses the following licenses:

Creative Commons Non-Commercial License
The FTGS data — this website, JSON data structures, and assorted icons

— are licensed under a Creative Commons license requiring attribution

and prohibiting commercial usage.

CPAL Open Source License The Python source code to FTGS is available under the
Common Public Attribution License, which credits Ground Zero Games as the
“Original

Developer”. Roughly speaking, this license requires that:

• all changes must also be contributed back as open source • any
applications leveraging this code (even as a web service) must visually credit
Ground Zero Games Exhibit A The ownership of the Original Code is described in
Exhibit A of the license:

The contents of this file are subject to the Common Public Attribution License
Version 1.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in
compliance with the License.

You may obtain a copy of the License at the fullthrust web site.

The License is based on the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 but Sections 14
and 15 have been added to cover use of software over a computer network and
provide for limited attribution for the Original Developer. In addition,
Exhibit A has been modified to be consistent with Exhibit B.

Software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS”

basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the
License.

• The Original Code is the Full Thrust Game Server. • The Original
Developer is not the Initial Developer and is Ground Zero Games. • The
Initial Developer of the Original Code is Ernest Prabhakar. • All portions
of the code written by Ernest Prabhakar are Copyright (c) 2008. All Rights
Reserved. • Contributor Ernest Prabhakar

Exhibit B The specific attribution required by this project is listed in
Exhibit B of the license:

• Attribution Copyright Notice: Copyright 2008 Ground Zero Games and
J.M.Tuffley. • Attribution Phrase: Rules and miniatures for FullThrust
available from Ground Zero Games
        • Attribution URL: http://www.gzg.com/
• Graphic Image:

Display of Attribution Information is required in Larger Works which are
defined in the CPAL as a work which combines Covered Code or portions thereof
with code not governed by the terms of the CPAL.

From: Tim Jones <Tim.Jones@S...>

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:47:11 +0000

Subject: Re: [GZG] Licensing for Full Thrust Game Server

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Ernest

This may be a better version of the logo - I did the original web
version which had some faults that really niggled me and I tidied it up in
these
versions for the GZG store re-skin project.

I'm sending a link as attachments aren't allowed on the list. These are
transparent PNG's that should look nice on any web page and are *much*closer
to the official GZG print logo than anything previously.

http://www.fullthrust.net/images/gzg-logo-small-transparent.png
http://www.fullthrust.net/images/gzg-logo-large-transparent.png

and a new experimantal funked up version (totally unofficial)

http://www.fullthrust.net/images/gzg-logo-new-small.png