[gambit-list] Video game written in Gambit

Adrien Piérard pierarda at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Aug 13 13:39:44 EDT 2009


2009/8/14 David St-Hilaire <sthilaid at iro.umontreal.ca>:
> Hehe, I wouldn't count on that... But, some might be interested to know
> that Guillaume and I are pushing our bosses to get the chance to also
> make a linux release. But there is nothing done toward this so far. ;)

Did you work on that game?
I'd be interested in getting the names of the people behind this game
(at least the coders), if this isn't covered by any NDA…

Also, remember that you don't have to give access to the source code
for free either.
A licence like the GPL says roughly that "you can sell sell the source
for at most the price of the binaries".
So, given that the game (which is not GPL, I know), sells for a cheap
price, the source could be sold too.

Say: "binary, CAD 12.99", "source: CAD 30", "pack binary+source: CAD 50".
And with a proper licence on the source (which would be mostly "no
forking of the game" [1]), that could do some extra revenue.

What do you think of that ?

P!

[1] While I am mostly a BSD advocate, I thnk that such a licence, if
it exists, is the best thing for such a project. It means "learn with
our code. Even improve it, we'll pay you back. But do not sell your
version of our game, or we'll sue you".
This may show tricky to set up, but if Scheme/Lisp community wants to
show how it can realistically be used to make games, then showing the
code is the best way to motivate people (both programmers and
"deciders")

P!

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