ryzom mmorpg to become gpl

kmare · Last edited by kmare on Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:06 pm; edited 2 times in total

http://www.ryzom.org/
well, i'm not sure if any of you might be interested, but they're trying to gather enough money from the community (100.000 euro) to buy the sources and release them under the GPL...
btw, just check out the videos.. to me it looks certainly better than WoW in every aspect but i never played it...
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Babali · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:03 am Post subject:

Only need 100.000 people to give 1 euro ;-)

I think it we will have ryzom gpl'ed soon ;-)

teidon · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:21 pm Post subject:

Actually they are trying to get as much money as they can because they probably need to compete against other buyers. Ryzom is currently at shared first place in mmorpg.com's best mmorpgs list, so there's more than likely other buyers too. Also, it's the whole game they are buying. That's sources, art, sounds, etc. And in case Free Ryzom Project manages to buy it, they all will be released under some free software license.
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Babali · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:30 am Post subject:

But it's quickly growing !

Phenax · l33t Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 972

Looks great, if it reaches the limit maybe there will finally be a great MMORPG that is FOSS.

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teidon · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject:

Free Software Foundation decided to support The Free Ryzom Campaing. They are going to donate bit over 45 000€ for the project. Official press release to follow later on. Thanks to FSF, the donation pledges rocketed to 133 000€.

There should be more news about the liquidation process by 19.12. Let's keep our fingers crossed that Ryzom becomes FOSS.
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Babali · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject:

WTF !! the goal is now 200 000 euro ! We should better give 200 000 euro to planeshift for their devellopment

teidon · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject:

Babali · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject:

playfool · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:41 am Post subject:

I pledged 30 last thursday when I read about it in LWN. A fine project even though I don't play such games myself

hook · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

mhm ...it'd be great to see Ryzom become free

btw, it wouldn't hurt renaming this thread ...at least that spelling of Ryzom would be correct. maybe mentioning the initiative for opening/freeing it wouldn't hurt as well :]
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kmare · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject:

Babali · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject:

Finally gameforge got ryzom!

xanas3712 · Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 455

Who the heck is gameforge? It was good that they won the bid?

kmare · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:37 am Post subject:

As far as i know they just make php games.. and no, i don't think it's a good thing they won the bid (unless they free everything, but i doupt that). It'd be really huge for the opensource gaming in general if the whole thing became fully gpl. An official annoucement will be made soon... let's see... btw, the movement is not totally over. Read here for more:
http://www.ryzom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=160
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MrBlond83 · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 25

It's funny that people are paying money to make something free... As far as I know if you pay for something it is not free

It also makes me wonder what happens if FSF won't be able to buy it, will they give all the money back?

Doogman · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 236

It's a real damn shame that "free" is such a overloaded word in the English language. In the Gnome dictionary, the first definition of free is defined as:

Exempt from subjection to the will of others

Which has nothing to do with the monetary cost of something. So yes, you can pay for something and have it be free. In fact, that's the way it works in almost all cases.

Not that I give a hoot one way or another for a MMORPG. From my brief addiction to MUDs years ago, I think you are better off with drugs or something.

playfool · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:32 pm Post subject:

MrBlond83 · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 25

I understand, I would donate the money, except I do not understand out of all of this, if the game will be made to run natively in linux as a result.

playfool · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject:

MrBlond83 · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 25

Oh well, maybe Anarchy Online will be for sale soon? I think the game has been going downhill for the past two years or so, lol.

tylerwylie · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject:

rcb1974 · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 43

Now 3.5 years later, this game is officially released under the AGPL. I'm sure this is way premature, but has anyone made an ebuild for this game yet? Can't wait to try it out.

hook · Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 10:19 pm Post subject:

The first goal in their RoadMap is to migrate to CMake in order to make packaging work and there's even a Linux Build HOWTO on their Wiki.

...maybe in a few months' time we'll finally be able to "emerge ryzom" :]

Just to add a bit: all the code (i.e. client, server, tools etc.) is under AGPL 3.0 and a lot of the artwork (all textures, but no sound (yet) and no world data) is under CC-BY-SA 3.0
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