On: 0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years

[grozzle]

Hmm. I read the licence.md. Does this mean if I fork the game to try my own patches, I'm forbidden from using the game's artwork in my forked version?

If so, that is a serious impediment, tbf.

[wurzeltrick → grozzle]

It just concerns some of the artwork, which is a major endeavour to recreate. For example https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K-Artwork/blob/master/musi... is under a Noncommercial License, so you can probably fork ZeroK just fine, as long as you don't have commercial plans.

Unfortunately non-open source artwork is a problem with many games whose sources were released by the original publishers, after they abandoned any commercial plans.

For example I'm a big fan of OpenRA, but its artwork is still non-free.

I think ZeroK is a great game, and BAR probably also, so I didn't mean to distract from the great accomplishments of its FLOSS gameengine authors.

[BlueTemplar → grozzle]

> Since version 4.0 [of ND], derivative works are allowed but must not be shared.