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dscalzi / HeliosLauncher

☀ Custom launcher for modded minecraft written in Electron and Node.js
MIT License
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Legal clarification #295

Closed ItsQuadrus closed 1 year ago

ItsQuadrus commented 1 year ago

Closes #292

dscalzi commented 1 year ago

An informed developer understands the obligations under the MIT license. The license does indeed mandate the retention of the license and copyright notice(s), which is a form of attribution, but not necessarily a very visible one.

I'm not a fan of this wording change nor do I think the original causes any confusion. The note is a request, not a mandate. I would like to have it remain a request because it is the message I am intending to convery. Of course anyone may provide attribution but I am specifically requesting that you do. It really is the only compensation I get for working on this project. The legal obligations are covered by the license.

Keep in mind to pay a private developer to create a project like this would be incredibly expensive. It is provided for free, so giving back with a credit seems pretty reasonable 😄

ItsQuadrus commented 1 year ago

Thank you for your reply. I know the importance of attribution, especially when it is for FOSS projects like this one. I think it's understandable that you prefer to keep it as a request rather than a mandate.