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I'm making a game taking place in a fake operating system and....
This gives me ideas
If you use the idea you have to make the entire game GPL v2 sorry. Lemmy is GPL, this post is on Lemmy, your game was in some way inspired by it, full game is GPL.
Pretty sure that's how it works. They do say GPL is a viral license
Lemmy is not GPLv2, but AGPLv3.
So, the game would have to be (A)GPLv3. (The licenses are fairly interoperable. IIRC you can use AGPL components in GPL software if you abide by the terms of the AGPL.)
Viral licenses are nice and all, but they're not without their drawbacks. I caught GPL recently (the slightly rarer Affero v3 strain) and now no DNA testing companies want me as a customer. I can no longer write MIT or BSD licensed code. Whenever I open a project, a LICENSE file appears within ~15 minutes of contact. I hope to recover soon.
Hey Mycroft, play down with the sicknes
Daaamn.... I've been open sourced
Please include an easter egg that leads to this post, thank you
Absolutely will :3
Not FOSS, but OneShot: World Machine Edition is a great game based on this idea.
OneShot is literally the main inspiration for my game :3