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Diablo devolved - magic behind the 1996 computer game
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"Legal" section ambiguity #2268

Closed Spooghetti420 closed 2 years ago

Spooghetti420 commented 2 years ago

The legal section of the README, in the first paragraph, states that Devilutation is supposedly Public Domain, but then in the subsequent paragraph goes to impose a non-commercial use clause. Those two seem to contradict each other, since "Public Domain" by definition allows use for absolutely any purpose, including for-profit. I don't know whether it's legally possible to "remove" a work from the public domain, but in either case it isn't entirely clear what the license is supposed to allow.

qndel commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution/issues/2208