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vgmrips / vgmtools

A collection of tools for the VGM file format
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Software license? #6

Closed jpcima closed 5 years ago

jpcima commented 5 years ago

Hi, the software license is not indicated in the source. I found chiptext.c to be a remarkably helpful debugging tool, and I would like to use it in other software, if vgmtools has a license which permits it.

felipesanches commented 5 years ago

I am not sure, but maybe this is the same problem as discussed at https://github.com/vgmrips/vgmplay/issues/47

superctr commented 5 years ago

vgmtools do not contain any emulation code from vgmplay, so it should be encumbered by other licenses. Though chip_cmp, chip_sro etc are to some extent based on the emulators as some state must be emulated in order to optimize VGMs. I'll leave it to @ValleyBell for the final verdict, but as far as I'm concerned, you're free to use my code in this repo for any purpose you want.

ValleyBell commented 5 years ago

If we're very strict, then I guess one could say that chip_cmp/chip_srom/chiptext is based off MAME code, as it borrows comments for switch/case blocks and names for constants/member variables from MAME's sound cores. The actual logic is mostly my own code though.

In any case, feel free to use the code. I don't have any objections.

jpcima commented 5 years ago

Thanks, really appreciate it, but just a thing: can this source be attributed a license, like MIT or such? I think a license can be indicated by comments at top of individual files, like in MAME.

It's desirable that I can precisely identify a license for my sources, particularly because debian has an extremely rigorous process when it comes to this.

ValleyBell commented 5 years ago

Here we go ...
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