LinRadiant licensing


There are three license types used throughout the LinRadiant source code:

  • modified Berkeley Software Distribution license (see headers)
  • GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL)
  • GNU General Public License version 2 (GPL)
Each source file in the tree comes with a license header which explains what license applies. Below is a short summary.

The following modules are under the GPL license (except some files contributed by Loki Software under BSD license): 

  Radiant Core
  Radiant Modules
  Radiant Libraries
  Quake III Tools
  Quake II Tools
  Background2D Plugin
  HydraToolz Plugin
The following modules are under the BSD licence: 

  JPEG Library
  MD5 Library
  DDS Library
  PicoModel Library
  PrtView Plugin
The following modules are under the LGPL license: 

BobToolz Plugin
GenSurf Plugin