Closed MarioLiebisch closed 6 years ago
@MarioLiebisch Thanks for the question. Yes, I am aware of this limitation of this license and as you have correctly guessed the main reason was to avoid other projects "borrowing" critical parts of this project. This is the closest matching license I could find.
I don't mind pull requests, but I want to avoid complete and partial forks. Perhaps I should add explicit exception to the license text that pull requests are allowed but IANAL and I don't know how to do that correctly. I don't plan to enforce this license at all unless I see some other public project that is clearly based on this one.
So far the DeckTracker is released under a CC NC-ND license. At the same time, there are many open issues and you're obviously looking for help regarding these (at least according to some issue tags).
However, the current license denies the creation of derivatives, contradicting this request, as anyone trying to do so would basically violate the conditions in section 2 a 1 b:
Just to reword this for clarity:
I'm no lawyer, but that's how I understand the license.
I understand the general idea, basically avoiding multiple versions, making it easier for people to find the correct/legitimate one (or possibly even avoid getting a manipulated one), but then again it's not that uncommon for many other projects to do that without issues.
Is there anything speaking against a change to a similar license that allows derivatives, e.g. CC BY-NC-SA? This way people would still have to credit the original project, use same terms, etc. to avoid confusion about the origins, but they could actually improve the program and share the changes back to the community.