From cf992963ee08df52be246a01ee1f8ff9607f0422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sumyjkl Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2022 00:29:02 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] removed note on FSF --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 28ebd27..72760fe 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ## LICENSES and copyleft If a commit contains copyleft licensed material, or any licensed material that would require use to re-license this entire project under someone else's copyright, that commit will be reverted. Do not add anything that is not either: compatible with the MIT license, or able to be licensed without affecting the license of the project. Please license your major additions / modules under such a license as MIT or BSD which allows you to retain copyrights. -This is extremely important, as many games for minetest are GPL which forces modifications or derivitive works to re-license their entire work under GPL, which gives copyrights to the Free Software Foundation. We want to be free to do what we want with this project, and have ownership over it, and copyleft licenses threaten that and the copyrights of all contributors. +This is extremely important, as many games for minetest are GPL which forces modifications or derivitive works to re-license their entire work under GPL. We want to be free to do what we want with this project, and have ownership over it, and copyleft licenses threaten that and the copyrights of all contributors. Free and open source. Free as in freedom, not free as in "free but you do as we tell you".