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Nisgeis · 09-02-08, 05:49 AM

Here comes a potential can of worms. The last line of that credits file says:

“Fall of the rising sun” is open source freeware, made by the SH3/SH4 modding community.

That's a bit confusing, as 'Open Source' may be interpretted as the Open Source Licence, which allows commercial use, re-sale and also charging a fee for redistrubution, as many of the authors of the mods used in FOTRS explicitly restrict commercial use of their mods, the open source licence cannot be used and may lead to confusion. Open Source is also not compatible with the definition of Freeware.

It may also be a good idea to add in after saying it's freeware that FOTRS may be distributed free of charge and may not be sold commercially, just to make it clear, unless you have already included a non-commercial freeware license elsewhere in the ditribution.

I'm happy for my little mod to be used, as long as the original readme is included in the distribution.

09-02-08, 05:49 AM	#5
Nisgeis Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,909 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 11	Here comes a potential can of worms. The last line of that credits file says: “Fall of the rising sun” is open source freeware, made by the SH3/SH4 modding community. That's a bit confusing, as 'Open Source' may be interpretted as the Open Source Licence, which allows commercial use, re-sale and also charging a fee for redistrubution, as many of the authors of the mods used in FOTRS explicitly restrict commercial use of their mods, the open source licence cannot be used and may lead to confusion. Open Source is also not compatible with the definition of Freeware. It may also be a good idea to add in after saying it's freeware that FOTRS may be distributed free of charge and may not be sold commercially, just to make it clear, unless you have already included a non-commercial freeware license elsewhere in the ditribution. I'm happy for my little mod to be used, as long as the original readme is included in the distribution. __________________ -------------------------------- This space left intentionally blank.