I know I’ve spent a few entries moaning about licensing – but this is not a preview to a sudden licensing change. As far as I am concerned (thus far – and until the GPL is finalised) the Affero General Public License is suitable for the Quantum Star SE project.

To explain – the AGPL explicitly states that if a program is distributed under the License offering a mechanism to download the source code, than that mechanism must also be replicated in any modified versions. For QS, that mechanism will be a simple link to the Sourceforge download space. Any modified version used would therefore have to maintain a link – but to a similar archive of the the modified source code.

Now QS has no such link at present – we haven’t distributed any source code including game features just yet. But it will be – and so we require no license change except to GPL3 once the draft process is completed and an equivalent protective measure is included.

Related posts:

  1. GNU GPL v3 Draft 1