Fwd: [foss-nepal] Ryzom goes OSS
Sunil Shrestha
Winch Gate has recently partnered with the Free Software Foundation and is
releasing Ryzom's coding to the public at no cost to access. Please
distribute the press release below to all with an interest in computer
science and/or video games so they may take advantage of this opportunity.
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*The MMORPG Ryzom goes Open Source!*
*[image: cid:15478418-17079]* <http://www.ryzom.com/en/main_dl.html>
*Breakthrough for Free Software Gaming:** **Ryzom
<http://www.ryzom.com/>** Announces
Full Release of Source Code and Artwork, and a Partnership with the **Free
Software Foundation <http://www.fsf.org/>** to Host a Repository of the
Game's Artistic Assets.*
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*PARIS, FRANCE, May 6, 2010: Winch Gate Properties Ltd, the developer and
publisher of massively-multiplayer online science-fantasy role playing
games, is proud to announce the release of the source code and artistic
assets of the popular **MMORPG Ryzom <http://www.ryzom.com/>** to the Free
Software Development Community.*
Developers can now access the source code of the end-user client, content
creation tools and server in order to make modifications, enhancements or to
create their own virtual worlds. This move marks a milestone in Ryzom's long
history and dedication to the free software movement. In order to ensure
that Ryzom continues to grow and foster as a free software project, Winch
Gate is now releasing Ryzom under the terms of the *Free Software
Foundation's GNU Affero General Public License (GNU
AGPLv3)<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html>
*.
Winch Gate is also excited to provide the free software community with high
quality professional artistic assets including 3D objects, animation tracks,
particle effects and thousands of textures. All of the Ryzom artistic assets
will be licensed under the *Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC
BY-SA) <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>* to ensure that they
and any derivative art will be available to all free software projects.
These assets will be hosted in a new online repository in partnership with
the*Free Software Foundation <http://www.fsf.org/>*.
[image: cid:17335991-14596] <http://www.ryzom.com/en/main_dl.html>
By freeing Ryzom code, Winch Gate is transforming the MMORPG marketplace and
is setting a precedent for how gaming software should evolve in freedom. The
source code released totals over two (2) million lines of source code and
over 20,000 high quality textures and thousands of 3D objects.
Welcoming the news, Free Software Foundation executive director Peter Brown
said, *"This is a unique opportunity for the free software movement and the
emerging free gaming field to accelerate the production of free games and 3D
worlds. We recognize the importance of gaming and the current dominance of
proprietary gaming software, so today represents a significant breakthrough
from which our community can benefit."* The FSF has *published more
information about the scope of today's
release<http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/ryzom-free-software>
*, and suggested ways for developers to get involved.
Vianney Lecroart, Chief Technology Officer of Winch Gate says, *"The Free
Software community often has a difficult time finding great graphical assets
that they can use in their own projects. We are sure that the thousands of
textures and 3D objects we are releasing under the CC BY-SA will help a lot
of Free Software projects."*
[image: cid:10976908-18005] <http://www.ryzom.com/en/main_dl.html>
Winch Gate intends to incorporate certain code changes and enhancements into
the official version of the Ryzom game. All code developed outside Winch
Gate's in-house development staff will be thoroughly reviewed to ensure
quality standards, stability and security. In order to engage and foster
growth in the Ryzom project, Ryzom will have a group of community managers
who can manage patch submissions and feature requests. Support will continue
to be given for the official Ryzom software only, with third-party projects
unsupported by Winch Gate.
Initial projects will include bug fixes and porting to operating systems
such as GNU/Linux and Apple Mac OS X. Timeframes for these enhancements will
vary depending on the scale of the project and the project team. The level
and world data associated with Ryzom will not be released as free content
and their use will remain exclusive to players of the Ryzom game.
The source code and additional information will be available from the *Ryzom
Core Development Portal <http://dev.ryzom.com/>*.
The Ryzom's free media assets are available from *Ryzom's Asset
Repository<http://media.ryzom.com/>
*.
* **[image: cid:14403991-12586]* <http://www.ryzom.com/en/main_dl.html>
*About Ryzom*
* *
*Ryzom <http://www.ryzom.com/>* is a Massively Multiplayer Online
Role-Playing or MMORPG Game set more than 3.000 years into the future, on a
living, evolving virtual world: beautiful Atys, where after creating your
own personal avatar you will guide it through this strange fantastic planet
to uncover its mysteries.
The game boasts a unique science-fantasy setting, a distinctive and artistic
visual style and a sophisticated plot based upon the conflict of two
mysterious supernatural powers. The storyline was awarded "Mmorpg.com Best
Story" award. Gameplay is highly adaptive to your personal preferences and
the actions/skills system is remarkably unique, sophisticated and profound.
* *
*Ryzom Ring (R²) <http://www.ryzom.com/en/ryzom_ring.html>* is the
proprietary innovative free expansion that brings MMORPGs to a new level.
Ryzom Ring allows you to create your own role-play and RPG Adventures on the
world of Atys.
* **[image: cid:11335048-19682]* <http://www.ryzom.com/en/main_dl.html>*
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*About Winch Gate*
Winch Gate Properties Ltd is the developer and publisher of the
massively-multiplayer online science fantasy role playing game Ryzom since
2009. Former employees from Nevrax joined the company to continue to work on
Ryzom.
* *
* *
*For more information contact: *
Vianney Lecroart, Chief Technology Officer
*v...@ryzom.com*
irc: #ryzom on irc.freenode.net**
*[image: cid:18967231-12243]* <http://www.ryzom.com/en/main_dl.html>
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