Dungeon Master

by Ginseng
Dungeon Master
RTS/RPG Dungeon simulation game. How evil a Dungeon Master will you be?

Source code for Felix's Mod?

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Mar 15 2013, 9:57 am
Is it available anywhere? It *should* be in theory, the license demands it, but then this is BYOND.
Mar 15 2013, 10:20 am
We distributed DM under a Creative Commons license which doesn't demand your changes to be made public. All it requires is that your use is non-commercial, and that if you share your work it must be under the same license or a newer version of the same CC license type.
Mar 15 2013, 10:55 am (Edited on Mar 15 2013, 11:31 am)
Okay, if you say so. Something like a hosted server indeed is a grey zone, but usually the CC share-alike licenses are comparable to the GPL in that if you distribute a compiled version of your work, you have to distribute the source as well. But again, grey zone, since it's up to interpretation whether hosting a server can be considered "distributing the work".
Mar 15 2013, 11:16 am
CC's share-alike clause doesn't inherently mean that you need to distribute source code at all, all it means is that anything you distribute must be licensed under the same license as the source it derived from. See here and here.

CC is a poor choice for software for this very reason, and they have since started saying so, and suggesting people use GPL instead.

It was Ginseng's decision to license under the CC, but maybe we should consider re-licensing under GPL.
Mar 15 2013, 11:22 am
Oh, that's news to me, thanks for the info. I've only looked at CC for art so far, so I guess that distinction slipped me. Also, yes, I would very much like that, if only because the current license makes it impossible to use any GPL'd code in DM.
Mar 18 2013, 2:07 am
Dungeon Master is now released under the GPL. See details at http://www.byond.com/games/Ginseng/DungeonMaster?tab=index

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Mar 26 2013, 5:27 pm
Great! :)
Oct 13 2013, 3:22 pm
I've made a pull request from my branch to the main branch of the github, specifically including Felix's changes into it. Feel free to access it via the main github now if you are interested.
Jun 26 2014, 1:49 pm
The GPL wouldn't cover that.

The AGPL (Affero General Public License) would. Here is why, since it can be explained so much better than I could explain it.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html

The following is the actual license.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html