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License issues are important for Oolite.

== Overview ==
Oolite is offered for free under the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL GNU '''G'''eneral '''P'''ublic '''L'''icense version 2], with the data files (ship models, graphics etc.) dual licensed under both the GPL and the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ '''C'''reative '''C'''ommons '''L'''icense].

The offering of the .oxp's is more murky!

== Synopsis of the licenses used ==
Not too sure what to write here: want a useful synopsis of the various varieties

[[File:SungsTrans.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sung's Transporter]]
[[File:SungsTharg.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sung's Thargoid]]
[[File:SungsCori.jpg||thumb|right|150px|Sung's Coriolis]]
== Historical Overview (Problems!) ==
==== Oosat 2 ====
There are problems with unlicensed OXP's. With the collapse of Oosat 2 in 2006, the OXPs there were lost. When they were replaced, the ReadMe's which would have contained any licensing information were lost. There was also a general presumption held by some that any oxp's posted came under the same license as Oolite itself.

So a number of the early OXP's seem to have lacked licenses.

==== Sung affair ====
This issue was then compounded during the '''Sung affair'''. Sung Mehta, in Germany, produced some absolutely spiffing [[Shady Sungs|ship textures]]. Two things happened. His retextures were uploaded to the resurrected Oosat 2 with minor modifications to meet the data limits, and he got upset. He then wanted to use them elsewhere for financial gain. A number of the more militant members of ''the Friendliest Board This Side of Riedquat'' raised a big hoo-hah and he ended up removing his work from Oosat and leaving in a huff in early 2007.

{{QuoteText|Text=Sorry for this, but the textures are not longer available.

This work is to much annoyance for me.

Good luck all
bye
Sung
|Source=([http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=30387#p30387 (Feb 2007)])}}

This led to lengthy discussions about licensing combined with various decisions being made by [[User:Ahruman|Ahruman]] and others.

==== Lestradae affair ====
Then there was the '''Lestradae affair''', where [[User:Lestradae|Lestradae]]'s creation of his mega-oxp, [[Realistic Shipyards]]. This was going to include everybody else's ship.oxp's and regularise them to make them compatible with each other and with Oolite as a whole. It became regarded as his "muscling in" by some of the other .oxp writers who then started insisting that he leave their oxp's out of his Realistic Shipyards! Again, matters escalated, and Lestradae ended up "resigning", so to speak, in [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=187339#p187339 Nov 2012]. He argued that the real reason was the broken nature of his concept, but his reception by the then stalwarts of the community (who all seem to have since fled) could not have helped.

==== Killer Wolf affair ====

==== Introduction of the Expansions Manager ====

== Links ==
*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16294 Analysis of Licenses] (2014)

[[Category:Oolite]] [[Category:Factual]] [[Category:Concepts]]

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 *[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=255521#p255521 Dizzy on Pleiadian's rewrite of a licenceless .oxp] (2017)
 *[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18544 Thread about licenses & recovering old oxp's] (2017)
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 == Links ==
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 == Synopsis of the licenses used ==
-Not too sure what to write here: want a useful synopsis of the various varieties
+''Not too sure what to write here: want a useful synopsis of the various varieties''
 [[File:SungsTrans.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sung's Transporter]]
 [[File:SungsTharg.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sung's Thargoid]]
 [[File:SungsCori.jpg||thumb|right|150px|Sung's Coriolis]]
 == Historical Overview (Problems!) ==
 ==== Oosat 2 ====

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 ==== Lestradae affair ====
-Then there was the '''Lestradae affair''', where [[User:Lestradae|Lestradae]]'s creation of his mega-oxp, [[Realistic Shipyards]]. This was going to include everybody else's ship.oxp's and regularise them to make them compatible with each other and with Oolite as a whole. It became regarded as his "muscling in" by some of the other .oxp writers who then started insisting that he leave their oxp's out of his Realistic Shipyards! Again, matters escalated, and Lestradae ended up "resigning", so to speak, in [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=187339#p187339 Nov 2012]. He argued that the real reason was the broken nature of his concept, but his reception by the then stalwarts of the community (who all seem to have since fled) could not have helped.
+Then there was the '''Lestradae affair''', starting with [[User:Lestradae|Lestradae]]'s creation of his mega-oxp, [[Realistic Shipyards]]. This was going to include everybody else's ship.oxp's and regularise them to make them compatible with each other and with Oolite as a whole. It became regarded as his "muscling in" by some of the other .oxp writers who then started insisting that he leave their oxp's out of his Realistic Shipyards! Again, matters escalated, and Lestradae ended up "resigning", so to speak, in [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=187339#p187339 Nov 2012]. He argued that the real reason was the broken nature of his concept, but his reception by the then stalwarts of the community (who all seem to have since fled) could not have helped.
 ==== Killer Wolf affair ====