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https://98.js.org
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Available for commercial use? #55

Open Throvn opened 3 years ago

Throvn commented 3 years ago

Hey yall, I came across this website on reddit: https://skids.io/ which was built on top of 98.js. This got me wondering, since you don't have any license specified: Is this allowed?

Thank you for your time! I really like this project and just wanted to make sure. (maybe also for myself in the future)

Best regards, Louis

LogoFun13-YT commented 2 years ago

According to the Licence section of the Readme file, it says: This project is currently source-available / shared source, but not open source.

I think you can figure out the rest.

ghost commented 2 years ago

I think you can figure out the rest.

Actually I can't figure out the rest, could you please directly answer the question for those who aren't native English speakers or with learning issues? The page you linked to says it can be both in the first paragraph (I think?), but I can't understand the rest of it :(

The licenses associated with the offerings range from allowing code to be viewed for reference to allowing code to be modified and redistributed for both commercial and non-commercial purposes

Edit: This is really hard to understand! Here is a stackoverflow answer:

There is now a license specifically designed to create source-available software for non-commercial use, namely the Commons Clause License.

A separate source-available license specifically for "for non-commercial use" is confusing, because it implies that by default source-available components can be used in commercial projects.

ZaDarkSide commented 2 years ago

@Throvn @FantasticalOz It's not for commercial use, the source is shared that means you can look at it, but it's not open source, that means you can't make derivative works without permission, that also means the author reserves all rights and the source is shared with you for educational purposes mainly so you can learn how was made, that doesn't means you can copy/paste the code and start modifying it or use it for you own purposes.

ghost commented 2 years ago

Thank you for the response, this makes sense!

ZaDarkSide commented 2 years ago

@FantasticalOz You can use https://github.com/1j01/os-gui instead to make something similar.