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bacontsu / halflife-extended

Source Code of Half Life : Extended as a open source modbase for everyone publicly, make your own mod with alot of features easily based on this SDK. Equipped with modern features and tools to improve gameplay and development wise.
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Licencing conflict #1

Closed Admer456 closed 2 years ago

Admer456 commented 2 years ago

LICENSE.md contains the CC-BY 4.0 licence, but Half-Life SDK is licenced under the proprietary HL SDK EULA, which prevents any sublicencing (look at source-code/LICENSE).

To remain compliant with HL SDK EULA, you should change the licence from CC-BY 4.0 to the SDK's actual licence, or explicitly limit the CC-BY licence to files that are not covered by the EULA. (your own README.md and potentially any headers and sources that don't include any HL SDK headers or anything that is protected by the EULA)

If you want to get credited, which I believe is the reason why you went with CC-BY in the first place, there isn't much you can legally do. However, you can look into alternatives, e.g. simply asking people to credit you, something like "Please credit [XYZ] if you use this in your project".

TL;DR do something about your licence pls, thank you :3

bacontsu commented 2 years ago

alrighty, the license has been reverted back to the normal HLSDK Eula on the new commit. thank you for your help! https://github.com/bacontsu/halflife-extended-master/commit/89cc72698f778c85b674f64efc0a03c87483c345