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From:

http://battlefront.com/products/dropteam/news.html

Designed and developed by TBG Software and using their own proprietary Demeter Terrain Engine, DropTeam features exciting solo and multiplayer combat set on a variety of exotic battlefields and planets.
And then, from:

http://www.tbgsoftware.com/

Demeter is open source. It is available under the terms of the Lesser GNU General Public License, which are incredibly reasonable terms. Basically, you may freely download and use Demeter in your own projects, even commercial projects, without having to pay any kind of royalties or fees whatsoever. Please read the entire license document before using Demeter.
That doesn't seem to be very proprietary to me ;)
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I Am Not A Lawyer (IANAL), but...

TGB Software is the developer for both the LGPL Demeter engine and the DropTeam game. As such, they're free to re-license the Demeter engine (with or without modifications) as they see fit. So the LGPL version may actually be different than what TGB is using, even if they have the same name.

It could also be exactly the same, but simply relicensed for inclusion into DropTeam for other reasons.

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I do not see the problem. One of the webster definition of proprietary is "used, made, or marketed by one having the exclusive legal right".

Well TBG Software has the exclusive legal right to Demeter since they own it, and they can use it and market it how they see fit. Open Source doesn't not remove the rights of the owners of the software, it just limits the rights of all others who want to use.

Simply put the owner has no limitations to the use of their software regardless if it's open source or not.

-Creepy

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