OpenBVE
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leezer3
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Description
Sorry for asking again. You said it's a form close to the public domain, but is it okay to mark the source? And is it possible to distribute it as an open source?
Reproduction
If the issue occurs in multiple routes/ trains, please provide one or two samples. In order to reproduce the issue and debug it, it's helpful to have the following:
Route
Please provide a link to where the route may be downloaded.
Train
Please provide a link to the train may be downloaded.
Logs
Logs may be accessed through the 'Report Problem' button on the bottom left of the screen. Please provide a log, and a crash-log if the game actually crashes.
Related information
- Operating system
- Method of control (Keyboard, joystick, RailDriver)
If you want to fork or distribute as open-source, then public domain is appropriate, apart from any newer code, which is covered by the BSD-2 licence specifically, and which will be noted in the file header.
If you cannot distribute legally as public domain under your juridistiction (I know nothing about Korean copyright law), then the best thing to do would probably be to consider the entire project as covered by BSD-2.
(Both situations are fundamentaly identical anyway, assuming you have the good manners to credit the others who have worked on the code)
@leezer3 The copyright law in Korea is applied to the public domain when the copyright holder died in 1962, so can openbve be used as a public domain?
That's different & unrelated.
You probably can, but again I am no expert in Korean law.
Can you give me a link with all the sentences in BSD-2? It's hard to find. ):
https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause https://olis.or.kr/license/Detailselect.do?lId=1093
@leezer3 Thank you for the Korean information link, so what should I write for the year and copyright holder?
Year is when last updated.
The copyright holder would probably be something like the OpenBVE Project.
https://github.com/leezer3/OpenBVE/blob/master/Contributing.md
Any file specifically written by someone recently should have a licence header. (If they thought it needed it) Reworked / original code does not.