Changes between Version 10 and Version 11 of WfgAcademiaInto

Timestamp:

May 17, 2007, 9:03:26 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Jason

Comment:

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WfgAcademiaInto

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 - WFG has taken great pains to emphasize history through out development stressing authenticity and accuracy; always remembering the educational opportunity we have in games.
 - The software is portable (running on Linux, Windows, and MacOSX).
-- The code and design are well documented (comments, !CppDoc documentation, Wiki,
-  some full technical reports, reams of forum posts with rationale and discussion).
-- We willing to go open source.
-- The project is made up of gamers / people looking to get into the industry;
-  a good deal of experience in this area has been gained and can be passed on.
+- The code and design are well documented (comments, !CppDoc documentation, Wiki, some full technical reports, reams of forum posts with rationale and discussion).
+- We are willing to go open source.
+- The project is made up of gamers / people looking to get into the industry; a good deal of experience in this area has been gained and can be passed on.
+- One of our goals is that this project will gain some traction with the public as development progresses.  You as a student or a education program would be able to point to a well recognized development project that has a tangable release of software. 
+- Templates to assist in creation of art assets (textures, meshes) will be provided.
+- Various tutorials and guides will be available for ease of iniation.
+
+Why would we as a game development project be interested in offering our work to Academia?
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+- Aid to help us reach the finish line to completion of the 0 A.D. development project.  What Wildfire Games will do is provide an up to date list of tasks and jobs that required tasks to reach milestones in development.  Suppose a student found one of those tasks to be a subject that would be interesting to complete course work and they completed that task, they would then under the GPL license release that contribution.  Wildfire Games would then review the code and if it meets the requirements then incoorperate it into the official build of the game.  Of course, students are free to do a project radically different than the Wildfire Games suggests.  We would just not be able to offer exposure by including it in the official game release.   
+- Students are very creative and origional with a fresh perspective, uncluttered by by the "this is the way we do it and have always done it" mentality one may find in the work environments.
+- Assist students and professors by providing an affordable (free) game engine for coursework.  Free is something we have always stressed throughout development.
+- <add more>
 
 == Licensing ==
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 You are allowed to access and use source code placed under GPL after you accept the GPL license. No restrictions or obligations are placed on you, with one exception: As soon as you make a binary release of a program containing GPL-ed code, you must thereafter license all of the code constituting it under the GPL.
 As a concrete example, three use-cases are discussed.
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 1) You use GPL-ed source code to generate screenshots of an interesting graphical effect. As long as you do not publically release a compiled version of the program, you are under no obligation to place the source code under GPL. This means that the modifications you have made to the code can remain your property and secret, though we would appreciate seeing your changes so that 0 A.D. may be improved to the benefit of all.
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 2) You compile an unmodified version of the game source code and release it to the public (e.g. to act as a mirror). The GPL then requires you to also release the source code, or to provide a written offer promising to make the code available to anyone who asks.
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 3) You make changes to the initial GPL-ed code and wish to also distribute a compiled demo to the public. Note that the GPL is not concerned with any modifications you may make to code; this act is not restricted in any way. The only obligation you are under is to also place the entire source code that generated the demo under GPL, i.e. make it available to the public. This means that the next person who downloads your demo can further tweak it, and ensures he has the same chance you had to modify the source code.
 
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 Two of our programmers have had the pleasure of being able to work on parts of 0 A.D. within the scope of a course project. This yielded attractive results because the new work could be shown in the context of a full game and also advanced the project's development. Having seen the success of this approach, we would like to extend the same chance to interested students and hopefully integrate new developments into the public version of the game.
 
+What is to stop us from taking the game and selling it?
+We have already been offered <blah blah> and refused <blah blah>
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