Spring RTS Engine

http://zero-k.info/Maps/Detail/10027

I'm asking because a guy emailed me to ask if he could use the heightmap in a Terragen render.
Search here and on springfiles doesn't turn up anything.

I tried to look inside the map and see if it had a license or suchlike, but I can't see how I'm supposed to download it from the ZK website? And didn't find it on SF.

He could still in theory grab the preview image from the site without needing to download the map.

The map in question doesn't seem to exist anymore so I don't think this can be answered.

Reverse image search doesn't reveal any sources either.

Not a lawyer, but buddy is probably okay to use this.

It must exist somewhere in whatever ZKs download system is?

But I agree, if the map says nothing, and long gone author can't be traced, it should be ok.

Maps are GPL.

No, there is no reason why a map would be GPL if it does not say so.

Get inspired- change a pixel..

It's actually weird for maps* to be GPL as they're not code.

maps* are in this sense referred in the reduced sense (heightmap, diffuse, splat, etc.)

But if i have a map, stored as function that can produce the map at any given time.. you are basically stating that any const code piece is not gpl able as it is basically data..

BrB Haskell Lynchmob at the gates

PicassoCT wrote:But if i have a map, stored as function that can produce the map at any given time.. you are basically stating that any const code piece is not gpl able as it is basically data..

BrB Haskell Lynchmob at the gates

If you're using a tool to generate and save an asset, the asset itself doesn't any license limitations. This is why you can use GIMP and most open source text editors to generate non-free content.
The procedural generator itself can of course be GPL, and if that's the only thing you're distributing then of course it can be licensed as code, but that's not the case with any Spring map I know of.

gajop wrote:It's actually weird for maps* to be GPL as they're not code.

maps* are in this sense referred in the reduced sense (heightmap, diffuse, splat, etc.)

correct, the gpl stated that it was not to be used for art blah blah rehash.

As far as I know, the islands map I did for tobi was the only PROPER gpl map ever released. It still has it's source available..

But wait a second, if i used a program with gpl-source, i could produce a map with it , and release the map- and not the source of the program. So a map can not be gpled, but it can be a gpl violation?


Minds trained to search for edgecases beeing edgy, when the arts give them a brainstem-wedgy..

PicassoCT wrote:But wait a second, if i used a program with gpl-source, i could produce a map with it , and release the map- and not the source of the program. So a map can not be gpled, but it can be a gpl violation?


Minds trained to search for edgecases beeing edgy, when the arts give them a brainstem-wedgy..

It's not an opengl infrigment. Just because you used an open source program doesn't mean that anything you produce with it is subject to a specific license, otherwise everything compiled with GCC on made on Linux would be GPLed.

OH

Thats fairly liberal..
Then why are there company complains on GPL-Existance all the time?