tepples wrote:
Hamtaro126 wrote:
tepples wrote:
Applied MIT License (Expat variant) throughout
This just killed support for romhacks
How so? MIT is not a copyleft. Though
Nintendo is known to be anti-copyleft, I seem to remember that some of the Wii system software has notices for BSD and MIT licenses. If you want, I can go try to dig it up for you.
Licenses like that only allow you to go so far before you get sued,
I was planning to try to use in a SMB2 hack to enhance music, but since the MIT licence says this:
Code:
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions
And after that, the problem area is:
Code:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Meaning all uses of the music code (at least legally) MUST NOT be included with copyrighted code originally made by Nintendo.
Also, Fair use don't apply here.