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Title: Starshatter:TGS License
Post by: Thaeris on October 25, 2021, 10:15:22 pm

Right, I have a technical question if anyone is able to answer:

What is the license for SS:TGS?

...Can't find the source at the moment, but as best as I can figure, it was released under some flavor of the BSD license. Does anyone have confirmation of this, or alternately, a rebuttal?

Title: Re: Starshatter:TGS License
Post by: crossboneisland on October 27, 2021, 03:55:48 pm

Best I could find:
https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=84791.msg1699257#msg1699257

Quote from: The E on July 10, 2013, 08:37:37 am

Well, depends on what Milo says about it, I guess.

On that note, he has been in contact and has graciously changed the licensing on the source code release so that it is now under a variant of the 3-clause BSD license, which is extremely good news.

It looks like later forks of the original source have the new copyright:
Post: 2013
https://github.com/Luomu/starshatter-open/blob/master/Stars45/Asteroid.cpp

Pre 2013:
https://github.com/The-E/Starshatter-Experimental/blob/master/Stars45/Asteroid.cpp

Title: Re: Starshatter:TGS License
Post by: Thaeris on October 27, 2021, 05:31:06 pm

Awesome, thanks crossboneisland!

In any sense, the license reference I first found was on some sort of placeholder reference in the remnants of Google Code. Again, can't find it right now and it's no longer a big deal because:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses

Indeed, it's BSD 2.0 / 3-clause license

As far as I can tell, that's super-awesome. I'm no license guru, so I can't tell the pros and cons of this, but in general it's only good news. :D