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License of OpenKKND #252

Closed Trilarion closed 3 years ago

Trilarion commented 4 years ago

OpenKKND (https://github.com/gp-alex/OpenKKND) does not seem to have license information attached. osgameclones says they are GPL-3.0. They say that it's based on original exe decompilation, which would raise a question about if this is actually perfectly safe in a legal sense.

Need to investigate before including here.

[ ] Ask authors
[ ] Relation to existing KKnD (was at https://github.com/IceReaper/KKnD.git, now not available)
[ ] Search for or ask in general about such situations (maybe on https://opensource.stackexchange.com/ or https://law.stackexchange.com/)

Don't include without an explicit open source license information attached.

IceReaper commented 3 years ago

OpenKrush:

The website will be available again soon, but it still is if you append index.php => https://www.kknd-game.com/index.php so no need for an archive.org link.
Keyword: Yes original is required as the license owners forbid to use the name or the assets. Hence the project was refactored to be a mod.
Git repo again available. Was private while refactoring due to the license owners wish.

OpenKKND:

another project. That one is the original .exe decompiled throught ida pro, but not related to above project. So basically an illegal github repo.

Trilarion commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the info. Will add it. The project name is now OpenKrush?

IceReaper commented 3 years ago

Yes, using the original copyrighted name wasnt the brightest idea after all :D But the old license holder simply did not core, while the new one does.

Trilarion commented 3 years ago

I updated the entry and renamed it to OpenKrush.