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License
I notice there is no license posted for this. I notice you generally use the MIT License, is that the case here? Are we allowed to run our own version of the site? Modify it? Would it be possible to add a license file for clarity?
Thanks!
From https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/
However, without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that you retain all rights to your source code and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work.
It would be awesome if a LICENSE is added to make this more explicit (if the above was intentional for your project). If you would like this project to be more open, that would be great as well. I'd be very interested in seeing what LICENSE was intended for this project.
@jbowens bump this is kinda important :-D. I was about to implement this in a very similar fashion, then came across this repo, so I'll play the COVID-19 card and self-host the game with Catalan as a supported language (PR incoming) without bothering about this issue too much. But clearing up the license is important.
Yeh, license is extremely important if you want the community to contribute, especially now with COVID-19. I was thinking about forking and re-implementing the front-end so it'll follow React's best practices and look a little more "gamish", also thinking about translations (Hebrew).
Assuming this repository is for the community, I'm creating a pull request with an MIT license. If you'll approve, this will open a door for contributions from the community, if not, not a problem!
Thank you for this we had fun playing.
Another aspect of this, what's the legality with the original board game? If I want to PR the Duet version is it legal?
@jbowens Can you please take a look at this? Stating you don't want to add a license would be fine as well, but ignoring this issue here as well as the PR isn't helping anyone.
A license would be helpful, agreed. At least in the U.S., the software isn't open source unless an open source license explicitly applied (https://opensource.org/faq may help here). Now, maybe @jbowens doesn't intend for it to be open source, but in that case saying so would be useful too.
(Also, thanks for building this! My friends and I just played it online and had a great time.)
Any update on this @jbowens? I'd love to package this, but without a license it's not really possible. If you need guidance with choosing a license https://choosealicense.com/ is a good resource. It should not take more than 10 minutes.
@jbowens We're a small student's council and host a few online games / game clones for our students: https://github.com/fsrmatheinfo/spieleabend We would really like to include your repo in the collection, but that would be the first non-open-source game. Therefore could you please merge #41 or add any other open source license?
FWIW, the frontend directory lists the MIT license in package.json:
https://github.com/jbowens/codenames/blob/dca470ca8ba7394ee92404af31702801dd771502/frontend/package.json#L13
So if that's the case for the full repo, please add a LICENSE file at the top of the tree with the MIT license, which you can find here: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/
