Now the following is my own interpretation, and I have yet to seek out the advice of a lawyer to clarify my understanding, but as it is my understanding, contentiously, I have to follow it.
In the agreement between Transfusion (then qBlood) and Infogrames. We were granted a quitclaim right to use the materials from Blood “for purposes of this one project.”.
As I interpret the above statement, and other correspondences between members of the original Transfusion team and Infogrames, and because I've really not seen anything else to save us from a “worst case scenario”, the Blood community really only has four options to do something Blood related on the various game engines.Doreen Small, in an email to Joseph Carter wrote:Infogrames is prepared to give the qBlood developers/publishers a royalty free quitclaim license to use the copyrighted materials in Blood and Blood2 for purposes of this one project.
1. Do a Blood mod on Blood's Build engine.
- In this event users can use Blood materials and appropriately licensed materials imported into Blood. (original works, CC licensed, etc.)
2. Do a Blood II mod on Blood II's Lithtech engine.
- Users can use Blood II's and appropriately licensed materials.
3. Do a Transfusion mod on the Transfusion engine.
- Users can use both Blood and Blood 2 materials as well as appropriately licensed materials.
4. Do something inspired by Blood but with completely original materials (such as was done with Open Arena in the case of Q3A)
Because many of the mods listed here have used some of the materials developed for Transfusion, if Transfusion were to sanction xenoBlood mods (mods made on engines other than those specified above), we will in effect be in violation of our agreement made with Infogrames. Violating that agreement would not be in the best interest of Transfusion, or that of it contributing members.
I hope that clarifies the position I've taken on the matter. I don't want to be an ogre about the situation, but again as it is my understanding, in good contentiousness, I have to follow it.