uyjulian
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10 years ago I just use this license. It's very simple, if you distribute binaries you also have to distribute source. /* Copyright (c) ${year}, ${yourname}
* All rights reserved.
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* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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nairol
@dslake: You said in a forum post that you'd prefer CC BY-NC-ND or CC BY-NC-SA.
Creative Commons recommend against using their licenses for software. They strongly encourage using existing software specific licenses. A list of the popular ones
Other than that, do you really think we need such a restrictive license? Not even the most restrictive Open Source/Free Software license, the AGPL, prohibits commercial use and distribution. In fact these two clauses would make the mod non Free Software and non Open Source software according to their official definitions.
"Share Alike" is fine but "No Derivatives" prohibits people from posting updated versions of the mod on the forum when both of us don't have time to work on it. This is how you got involved in this little project and I'd rather not close that door for others. (It's also a bit against Github's fork everything "philosophy")