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powervr-graphics / PowerVR-Series1

Original source code for the PowerVR Series 1 GPUs : Midas Arcade, PCX1 and PCX2
MIT License
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Licence in a LICENSE file. #1

Closed CreativeCylon closed 2 years ago

CreativeCylon commented 2 years ago

It appears that this is the licence of this repo. https://github.com/powervr-graphics/PowerVR-Series1/blob/1f702112a499b68f9a9a3a51fce84e7fe56d43af/Documentation/3DCC-Readme.txt#L1-L18

Can this be placed in a LICENSE file in root as is common for Github repos? @LawG4

LawG4 commented 2 years ago

Ahh Apologies, The Source code is release by us under MIT (Which I've now added into the LICENSE file as recommended) That license is from an executable provided alongside the documentation. We pulled this forward to the root of documentation to make it more visible for 3DCC

CreativeCylon commented 2 years ago

Also. Would it be possible for this to have an open source licence like GPL so people can actually use this?

Reading: " This software may not be modified, disassembled or reverse engineered in any way without written authorization from the author, " I don't even know if I can look at the source.

Is attempting to understand the code a form of reverse engineering? What if someone looked at this got familiar with it and wrote something based on this, is that interpreted as modifying the source and a violation of the licence?

LawG4 commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, I've added clarification that specifies that the readme only applies to specific executables, and all source code is under the license in LICENSE