ngunjaca wrote:It looks great. It gives a cool atmosphere to the game. Too bad the gfx is licensed, is there a chance to sort out this licensing issue?
Well, for anything included to freeciv proper we need to be very very strict about GPLv2+ compliance. Graphics in that tileset are from Scenario League, and while they give gfx out for people to use, that's not good enough for declaring them GPLv2+ licensed. So, getting that licensed under GPLv2+ would require finding out original author of each sprite and asking them to give them out under GPLv2+. Further, I suspect that some of the gfx currently in the tileset is not original works, but ripped from somewhere. We would need to find replacement for those.
At one point I had the idea of distributing the tileset separately already when working on GPLv2+ licensing issue, but that too would require some work. You see, as common practice with tilesets is, it uses some of the sprites common to all tilesets from freeciv. And as those sprites are under GPLv2+, that makes the entire tileset derived work which I cannot distribute under license other than GPLv2+. To make it distributable separately
not licensed under GPLv2+ would require getting replacement for all those sprites that are currently licensed under GPLv2+.
So, at the moment I'm waiting if someone is willing to produce higher quality tileset for alien ruleset. If yes, that tileset will be used anyway, and time spent on resolving license issues of SLalien would be wasted.