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Offline Thaeris

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

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


 

Offline Thaeris

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Re: Starshatter:TGS License
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
"trolls are clearly social rejects and therefore should be isolated from society, or perhaps impaled."

-Nuke



"Look on the bright side, how many release dates have been given for Doomsday, and it still isn't out yet.

It's the Duke Nukem Forever of prophecies..."


"Jesus saves.

Everyone else takes normal damage.
"

-Flipside

"pirating software is a lesser evil than stealing but its still evil. but since i pride myself for being evil, almost anything is fair game."


"i never understood why women get the creeps so ****ing easily. i mean most serial killers act perfectly normal, until they kill you."


-Nuke