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Open zorggn opened this issue 7 years ago • 13 comments

In the löve discord, someone brought this issue up since they can't incorporate this into their project since they cannot provide a license for it.

zorggn avatar Dec 16 '18 00:12 zorggn

Any updates on this?

ITR13 avatar Jul 08 '19 21:07 ITR13

The information is from the wiki, and I assume the wiki documentation is under the GNU Free Documentation License because it says "Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 unless otherwise noted." at the bottom of the wiki pages. You might want to ask one of the devs to clarify this. As far as I'm concerned, everything I've done on this is public domain, but maybe this legally needs to be under the GNU Free Documentation License too.

hahawoo avatar Oct 03 '19 11:10 hahawoo

I asked about this wayyyy back (probably a few years by now) on the Discord channel, but didn't get a clear answer...

I'd say the save thing to do is to add the GNU License.

(Then again there are also references to the FreeBSD license, but they are probably outdated).

rm-code avatar Oct 27 '19 14:10 rm-code

FreeBSD is outdated yeah, nothing remains of those docs.

GNU Free Documentation License should be used, considering the amount of data taken straight from the wiki.

Also all projects that use it should probably expose the JSON table in some way in order to avoid the GNU Free Documentation license affecting the entire project (cause it's invasive as f*ck)

pablomayobre avatar Oct 27 '19 14:10 pablomayobre

What do you mean by "expose the JSON table"?

rm-code avatar Oct 27 '19 15:10 rm-code

Say for love-atom you created the derivative .json table, that's under GNU Free Documentation License too, and so is the Github Pages HTML version, and any other plugin that were to use this as a source because the license is as invasive (or worse) than GPL

pablomayobre avatar Oct 27 '19 17:10 pablomayobre

The JSON expose table is pretty much solved (https://love2d-community.github.io/love-api/love-api.json). However the question of the license still remains.

MikuAuahDark avatar Sep 17 '23 04:09 MikuAuahDark