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Add LICENSE file #28

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bittner opened this issue Feb 11, 2018 · 4 comments
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Add LICENSE file #28

bittner opened this issue Feb 11, 2018 · 4 comments

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@bittner
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bittner commented Feb 11, 2018

This repository doesn't provide a LICENSE file. Hence, despite the disclaimer in the README, the source code is governed by strict copyright (i.e. it is forbidden to copy, use, modify and distribute the program in any form).

If you want to provide the entire source code as free software I would suggest you add a GNU General Public License v3 license file.

More information about software licenses: https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/

@hughperkins
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GNU is kind of 'clingy', and not used much recently. By 'clingy', I mean it forces all code that links to it to itself be GNU, which is not always ideal. Any of MIT, MPL, Apache etc are all common, and very similar to each other.

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bittner commented Apr 28, 2018

You have to define "not always ideal".

GPL is for freedom. MIT is for not hindering (closed source) profit. That's the difference.

Personally, I don't think anyone will ever be allowed to make profit from this code base. I may be wrong, though.

@dav-ell
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dav-ell commented May 9, 2019

@justinmeister, your other game, The Stolen Crown, is licensed under an MIT license. Any chance of this repository being licensed similarly?

@metulburr
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I can tell you right now, he doesnt give a rats ass about people copying it. He just whipped this up in like a month to learn python and pygame, and moved on.

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