protolibtemplateapp\scripts\app.js says copyright Turbulenz Limited at the top
dannagle opened this issue · comments
Included in the SDK is a project called "protolibtemplateapp". This template seems to be the natural starting point for our game. However, at the very top of scripts\app.js, the main area for our game, it states:
"Copyright (c) 2013 Turbulenz Limited"
Turbulenz is MIT licensed and we can modify as we please, but to comply with the MIT License we must maintain Turbulenz copyright notices and note our changes if we decide to reuse code. If this is indeed the starter template, this file should not be copyrighted as means we do not really "own" our game if we decide to use it since we cannot remove copyright notices despite 95% of app.js being custom code.
Bare-bones SDK starter files intended to be modified by the end-user to create their own app should instead say, "Generated by Turbulenz" so we can put our own copyright at the top.
Yes, this is nit-picking, but copyright issues are very important in serious game development. Otherwise, if we wish to use this template, we will need to get creative and use additional file imports to prevent copyright collisions if we wish to use our own copyright at the top of our code.
Yes, you are correct. Those files are intended for you to use as the basis for your own work. We will modify the template to make it clearer that they contain content originally from the Turbulenz Engine, but can be freely modified by game owner.
Thanks.
Looks fixed. Closing this issue.