An honest attempt to get Warzone 2100 Greenlite

(Long time lurker here)

Just as the title states, I and many other people would love to see this game appear on Greenlight.


However this has been brought up on occasion but never really managed to take flight (due to licensing difficulties).
So I decided to dig into this a bit further to see what those difficulties would actually mean, and after some digging it seems that they aren't untenable.
Quoting from the GPL 2 license it states that:

You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.

And when quoting from Steam Greenlight

Do not post..... Someone else's game or software, unless you have specific authorization to do so.

With these in mind I started searching on steam if I could find any other GPL licensed software, of which there are plenty e.g. Blender and Warsow and Aquaria and Gish are all available through Steam.


Next, I saw that Green Light requires a one time down payment of $100, which is very acceptable (and I would be more than willing to pay this myself).


After all having gone through that I decided to hit up one of the owners (http://forums.wz2100.net/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1436) of the Warzone Steam Group and go over this together. Upon which the conclusion was formed that before I would just toss it on Green Light that I should test the waters on the forums.

Please let me know what you think. :)

Thread can be found here: https://forums.wz2100.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=12647&p=135392#p135392