From 5d7aa9544571d092514e65df99d7f4a1f156ca78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gjefferyes Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 18:29:50 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] added LICENSE --- LICENSE | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 LICENSE diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..74b0fec --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ + Released under the respect the work of the original author license. + ------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The source code for RomVault has been released for the benefit of the emulation community. +This means you should ask yourself if you make a change/improvement/branch of this code, does your changes +also benefit the emulation community? If so then please give back to the community in a respectful way. + +What does giving back to the community in a respectful way mean: + Ideally it means contribute your changes back to the author of the source, so that your changes can be worked into the main build. + If you make a reasonably large change that you think others will benefit from put out your own branches for other people to try, + and then maybe this can also be worked into the main code. + + It means DO NOT make a small change/fix, re-brand the program and claim you are the greatest developer ever for releasing 'your' software. + This type of behaviour is disrespectful to the original author and the emulation community, and is against the nature of this license. + +If you want to use large parts of this code (such as the DAT reader or torrentZip library) in your own project go right ahead, +I hope you can do something cool with this code to add to or improve your new and existing projects. Please let the author know how you +are using it, it would be cool to hear about other things this is being used for. + +DO NOT sell this software or any derivative works from this software without permission from the author. +I have put 100's of hours of development into this code and only ever asked for donations to support this project. +So if you go and grab this code and start selling it or derivative works, that is disrespecting the nature of this license, +and so not permitted without permission. +