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CAH done as a Django web app.
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License must be changed to CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 #63

Open mitchellrj opened 10 years ago

mitchellrj commented 10 years ago

Cards Against Humanity is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 which requires derivative products to be licensed under the same license or one which is compatible. To date, no other open source licenses are compatible, therefore the license of this app must be changed to CC BY-NC-SA from MIT.

mitchellrj commented 10 years ago

@clach04

clach04 commented 10 years ago

I am not a lawyer, but I've seen one on TV..... or something ..... ;-)

I don't think there is a license issue per se but the licensing situation is confusing, removing that source of confusion is a good idea (more below).

The Creative Commons license is not a software license, http://creativecommons.org/software

The source code for this project is under an MIT license. Sample card content was included for this project from CAH, so the source is under MIT and some content was under CC. This was confusing, I see the sample card content was removed in commit 4645abf0e3df1b97b73bd8052375b9dcca1e97bb so I think phildini has addressed this.

The private server I run at home is using my own custom cardset so I'm not personally going to miss the CAH content.

mitchellrj commented 10 years ago

IANAL either. While the card content is under CC, I believe the concept is too. Rules, gameplay, etc. are licensable even if your own code implementation isn't directly. Perhaps including it as an additional license with an explanation would be a suitable compromise. On 14 Dec 2013 04:18, "clach04" notifications@github.com wrote:

I am not a lawyer, but I've seen one on TV..... or something ..... ;-)

I don't think there is a license issue per se but the licensing situation is confusing, removing that source of confusion is a good idea (more below).

The Creative Commons license is not a software license, http://creativecommons.org/software

The source code for this project is under an MIT license. Sample card content was included for this project from CAH, so the source is under MIT and some content was under CC. This was confusing, I see the sample card content was removed in commit 4645abfhttps://github.com/phildini/cards-against-django/commit/4645abf0e3df1b97b73bd8052375b9dcca1e97bbso I think phildini has addressed this.

The private server I run at home is using my own custom cardset so I'm not personally going to miss the CAH content.

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