This kit will help you get started. We want all contributions to be free as in freedom and so you do not need to worry about licensing too much, you can make use of this repo. We provide information for physical contributions as well as for software contributions.
Please don't forget to also add your game to the list at the Hetzner Game Jam repo.
For software contributions, you can use this repo as a starting point. We recommend the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or later (AGPLv3+) for software contributions. If you want to use it, simply follow these steps:
- start a new empty repo
- download the zip version of this repo and unpack it into your new repo (please don't clone it because that would provide the wrong copyright information in the Git history)
- delete everything in this README except the section
Legal Notices - add your own information in the README as appropriate
- add this license header to every file
/*
* SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright information recorded in version control history
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
*/
- if the file does not support a header, create an additional file named
filename.extension.license(like for thisREADME.md) and add the same information in that file.
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright information recorded in version control history
SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
If you want to make an actual board game or some other form of physical game, we recommend to use the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license. To use this license, simply add the following sentence to every drawing/board game etc.:
This work is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 International.
Optionally you can also add a link to the license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html.
To simplify recording copyright holders, we refer to the version control history in our license headers. To alleviate the issue of authorship information vs copyright information https://reuse.software/faq/#copyright-holder-author, we only allow contributions from authors who personally hold the copyright to their respective contributions.
This repository aims to be REUSE compliant. If it is not, feel free to open an issue.