Re: Battle for Wesnoth relicensing

[Tim Smith]

In article <48cd5271$0$3299$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk>,
 Pete Chown <1@234.cx> wrote:
> - ESR is suggesting using the NoDerivs option from Creative Commons.  
> Since Wesnoth as a whole is a derived work of its media files, I could 
> imagine this making it illegal to distribute the game at all.  The same 

It may be a "derived work" (whatever that is), but as long as it is not 
a derivative work, it is probably OK.  I haven't looked at the source to 
this game, but generally artwork and sounds for a game are distributed 
as separate files.  The game as a whole would be a collective work that 
contains many separate works: the game code, the individual works of 
art, and the individual works of sound.  Distributing them all together 
would fall under the "mere aggregation" part of GPL.

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--Tim Smith