ddevault
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/participate/derived-work...
https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/participate/copyright-ow...
"Hey, we have this problem." "To each their own but it doesn't affect me!"
Why waste your breath to say this?
> You are entitled to the use of any free software for any purpose, including commercial use – counter-intuitively, you can sell free software.
There are also sections which go into the utility of copyleft to mitigate some of this.
Might be worth going into more detail in a blog post.
https://writefreesoftware.org/blog/free-software-games/#but-...
tl;dr: access to the source code will help people develop cheats but it's not really required, your game's gonna have cheaters unless you do server side cheat mitigations.
https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/four-freedoms/#0-use-the...
There are also specific comments about non-free source-available software here:
https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/#what-is-source-availabl...
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