TheClashFruit / Rithle

Android app for Modrinth written in Kotlin.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Wrong license text in README #1

Closed ghost closed 1 year ago

ghost commented 1 year ago

Here's what the GPLv3 says:

"If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:"

    <program>  Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
    This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.

", this isn't adapted for a README file, since, by definition, this is not interactive.

The correct text to add is

    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

The pull request fixes this.

(I explored open-source licenses stuff today, I was going to make the same mistake before noticing it was wrong. lol)

TheClashFruit commented 1 year ago

Thanks, I never noticed this, thank you for the correction.