Lawrence King ( talk) 07:58, 10 February 2007 (UTC) Reply The first question is very complex and has been discussed for over a decade with no definite answer so far (search the mailing lists or the web forums for old discussions). This probably needs to be revised as well.
#PLAY FREECIV ORG PC#
As someone who spent three years in grad school playing Freeciv on the Unix machines in our math department, let me assure you that Freeciv is far more widely used than just on the PC market. The opening sentence says that Freeciv is "for personal computers".
Can someone who knows the true story please clarify?Īnd one final nitpick. What I am writing here is partially speculation (and that's why I haven't edited the main page). "Released under the GNU GPL." By what right? If Sid Meier owned the original copyright, then he would have had to relinquish these rights in order for Freeciv to be under copyleft. Some additional material available on the website does reuse pre-existing material, but always with the explicit permission of the original creator. artwork) was created specifically for Freeciv.
#PLAY FREECIV ORG CODE#
Freeciv is most certainly free of literal copying: all source code and data elements (e.g. It's unclear to what extent making use of another game's rules and conceptual elements constitutes copying in the sense of copyright law. But if such a lawsuit happened, any court in the world would rule that Freeciv was not merely "inspired by" Civ, but copied almost all of its details, usually quite literally. I understand that some of you may be Freeciv players with a vested interest in Sid Meier not suing for money from Freeciv.
I for one still prefer playing the game with this view. Fact is, before v2.0 the default and only view was the top-down one.
This is as Civ 1 uses a top down view and Civ2 and freeciv use isometricįreeciv's default tileset is indeed isometric, but it fully supports both top-down and hexagonal layouts as well. In fact, I would argue that Freeciv is closer to Civ 1 than Civ 2 is to Civ 1, and nobody says that Civ 2 is merely "inspired by" Civ 1.Įdit: I have changed it to say Civ 2.
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