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Originally Posted by loramin
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Doesn't matter. Once you license something GPL3, even if the original license holder wants to change the license, and grant you an exclusive right to not publish ... they can't.
The moment they put that license on their source code repository it was out of their hands, legally speaking: that code has been released under that license.
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What if I told you that only matters if they redistributed the server for a fee. Since they aren't for profit and it's in house they can do whatever they want.
1. They aren't redistributing closed source modification.
2. The project is "science" tm. We just have the benefit of being allowed to connect.
3. No one is profiting.
Entirely legal even for me to experiment, tinker, refine my own quake 1 server source and allow people to connect even if it was closed source. As long as I didn't charge for connections. Or sell or give that code to anyone.
P99 is completely legal and no one is compelled by GpLv3 under these circumstances to release anything.
It's not like GpL3 telescope control software where they are selling it for use with other tracking motors or as part of an OS that can control telescopes. Or distributing bins of the code.
Totally legal in the former, rather than the latter.
Case closed.
Get a life and go macroquest 20 bots on another scumbox.