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Licensing: Request to make a fork #97

Open Perksey opened 4 years ago

Perksey commented 4 years ago

Hi there! You haven't responded to any of my emails but I'd like to request an exemption from the No Derivatives clause of the license.

We're currently seekign to create a set of tutorials for Silk.NET - a free and open-source binding to OpenGL for C#, F#, and other .NET languages. But your license currently blocks this.

Please reply with an email address I can contact, as clearly contact@opengl-tutorial.org isn't reliable.

Perksey commented 4 years ago

cc @Calvin1602

sollyucko commented 4 years ago

http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/download/ says:

All the source code on this site (except third-party libraries) is released under the WTFPL Public Licence :

           DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                   Version 2, December 2004

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.

           DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
  TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

What No Derivatives clause are you referring to?

Perksey commented 4 years ago

All the tutorial material is available under Creative-Common license: CC-BY-NC-ND available here

The ND of CC-BY-NC-ND

sollyucko commented 4 years ago

Where does it say that?

sollyucko commented 4 years ago

Nevermind, found it.

sollyucko commented 4 years ago

Hmm... I wonder if you could use the tutorials verbatim, and add the code in other languages in some way that would make your set of tutorials a "Collection" containing this set of tutorials and the code for other languages... (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode)

It appears that @Calvin1602 / @opengl-tutorial / @opengl-tutorials is currently inactive, with @Calvin1602's last activity occuring January 2019. I guess you could tweeting at @GraphicsTut and/or @Calvin1602, but those also seem to be inactive...

Perksey commented 4 years ago

Hmmm @opengl-tutorial commented on an issue 3 days ago... I just hope they see this in their email as I'd love to get these tutorials in the works asap.