Comment on GameVault Update: Introducing the brand-new Web UI!

• gkaklas@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TIL; for people like me who just found out:

  gamevau.lt/blog/2023/07/13

  For a self-hosted app like GameVault, we believe it’s crucual to disclose the source code. We want you, our users, to have full transparency and control [?] over the software you use on your servers.

  our desire to protect our code from unauthorized use and commercial exploitation. While we absolutely encourage you to copy, modify, and share our code for personal use […] we want to prevent others from profiting off our hard work by selling our software without our consent.

  As a small business with just two members, we strive to provide you with a valuable product but cannot continue to do so as volunteers indefinitely.

  (I’m a AGPL kind of guy, but) btw at least there are licenses specifically for software:

  www.mongodb.com/…/server-side-public-license

  …stackexchange.com/…/allowed-uses-of-a-software-l…

  Copyright and the CC-BY-NC license do not regulate mere use, such as executing a program.

  Ok proprably we’re at least allowed to run it (That’s not a given, e.g. iirc if someone publishes their code on github without a license, it doesn’t mean that people can fully and legally use it, except for what some Github ToS clause defines that you agreed to)

  I was interested in checking it out for personal use; anyone has any experience with alternatives? (I can look them up, I’m just curious about peoples’ recommendations)

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  • gkaklas@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    (They changed the name apparently)

    l.opnxng.com/…/introducing_crackpipe_your_decentr…

    Embracing “alternatively obtained” games

    we want to prevent others from profiting off our hard work by selling our software without our consent.

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think you’re thinking of MIT though, the commenter was pointing out that AGPL is a license specifically made to do what you want - that people can use it in other open projects, but companies can’t use it in their for profit private software.

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  • alfagun74@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    gamevau.lt/blog/2023/07/13

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One of the issues is that CC isn’t a software license, it’s a documentation/text license. It would be appropriate for your blog, but not the software hosting your blog or for your game UI.

      If you want source-available, that’s fine, find an appropriate software license for it. But Creative Commons isn’t it.

      Here’s some reasoning by the Creative Commons group.

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