From 35b8566aa67b6bb77e45aad62bec25d7cd235460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rudolf Polzer Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:36:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] disclaim ownership of user generated content --- COPYING | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING index 018a9184..7bf6fe9d 100644 --- a/COPYING +++ b/COPYING @@ -1,8 +1,36 @@ Xonotic Licensing ================= -All source files are under the GPL version 2 or any later version, at your -choice. + +Scope +----- + +This licensing document pertains to: + +- Official Xonotic releases + +- The Team Xonotic-owned branches (i.e. those whose name does not contain a + slash, like "master" and "div0-stable") of the repositories on + git://git.xonotic.org/xonotic/ including all their ancestor commits + +Team Xonotic does not make any guarantees for licensing or legal status of any +content not as part of official Xonotic releases or Team Xonotic-owned +branches, such as: + +- Files downloaded from a web server by Xonotic (e.g. automatic map downloads) + +- Branches of our repository that are owned by a user of the repository, and + thus not owned by Team Xonotic (these branches are always prefixed with user + name and a slash, as in "divVerent/") + +For status of such content, please contact its author. + + +Licensing Grant +--------------- + +All source files (as defined by the respective license) in scope of this +document are under the GPL version 2 or any later version, at your choice. Linux and Windows binaries however link to a library that is under the LGPL version 3 with the "or any later version" clause. Thus, they can only be @@ -10,3 +38,11 @@ distributed under the GPL version 3 or any later version, at your choice. The two relevant licenses are provided in the files GPL-2 and GPL-3 in this package. + + +Source Code Download +-------------------- + +Current and past Xonotic source, including tagged commits containing source +matching any official Xonotic release, is available on +git://git.xonotic.org/xonotic/ -- 2.39.2