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models, sound files and other binary files, published within the
material including the text, design and artwork on the Wiki which is
and any additional person whom the Galacticraft developers deem to become
open-source software with its source code distributed freely on Github (or
any similar technological means which allows for the distribution of source
code via the internet to any interested person), available to all on a free
and no rights granted by this Licence shall interfere with the continuing ability
of
editing of the Wiki, and other user contributions are also welcomed
and are classed as "contributions" to the project for these purposes. Any
their sole discretion (which would require a large scale, sustained and
which a third party ("the original copyright holder") holds the copyright,
the Contributor shall (a) not seek to enforce or assist in the enforcement
of that copyright against Galacticraft nor by any other means prevent the
continuing publication of Galacticraft on Github whether by means of DMCA
holder only; (b) the Contributor shall indemnify and hold harmless the
code of vanilla Minecraft. Galacticraft does not itself modify the code of
but whether that is correct or not shall not affect the validity of this
document and the licence granted hereby, which shall apply in the same way in
either case.
music). The player will need to be running Minecraft, together with the
in either its source code or its compiled binaries - does not contain a
13. Galacticraft's source code can be read by anyone and Minecraft is not
source code.
"If you've bought the Game, you may play around with it and modify it. ...
Basically, mods (or plugins, or tools) are cool (you can distribute
those)...."
and
"Any tools you write for the Game from scratch belong to you. Modifications
to the Game ("Mods") (including pre-run Mods and in-memory Mods) and plugins
for the Game also belong to you and you can do whatever you want with them,
as long as you don't sell them for money / try to make money from them."
any relevant jurisdiction where the question arises, but if and to the
Libraries etc
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parties.
17. All such third party code is distributed within the Galacticraft
subject also to the terms herein as set out below. Reference should be
Dependencies
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only. This is for the convenience of developers wishing to make use of the
Galacticraft's compiled binaries and are not part of the copyright work
19. The code of all dependencies within the Galacticraft project is subject
Galacticraft: licence
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sell it or any derived work for money or try to make money from it,
detailed terms and provisions set out below shall apply in all cases.
or licence ("the original licence") then (a) to the maximum extent that
the law allows in every relevant jurisdiction, the terms of the licence
herein or any severable terms or provisions of this licence shall apply,
the extent that that is not possible (for example because a term of the
original licence is not compatible with this licence and the law requires
the original licence to prevail) then to that extent the terms of the
original licence shall apply in relation to the Part only, and the
source code available in that way. This meets the Galacticraft developers'
source code. The Galacticraft developers will not be liable in the event of
make money from it" does not prevent: (a) a person making money from an
(b) a server owner who charges a fee or receives donations from players
server does not disable player access to critical (in contrast to cosmetic)
of every player, modpack maker and server owner to test and confirm
that person has paid to the Galacticraft developers for the use of
25. Galacticraft may be updated from time to time, but the Galacticraft
developers are not obliged to update Galacticraft and are not obliged to fix
26. The Galacticraft project may be discontinued at any time, at the sole
they may have downloaded at that time on the terms applicable to them at
that time, but no further access to Galacticraft or its source code will be
graphics or text which makes reference to, links to, communicates with or
28. (a) Any person may make free use of Galacticraft's API and may freely
copy and distribute the API to the extent required for interoperability reasons.
(b) Any person may study Galacticraft's source code and may copy it, modify it,
reverse engineer it or otherwise use it for that person's own personal use
or any non-commercial academic purpose (but this does not permit distribution
and this does not permit inclusion or copying of any part of Galacticraft
or any derivative works in any commercial work or for any commercial purpose).
non-substantial parts (as defined below) of the Galacticraft project (including its
source code) for any non-commercial purpose and to incorporate such non-substantial
other Minecraft mods or plugins, provided that no person other than the
Galacticraft
developers may present Galacticraft's source code as being their own work, and any
derived work must contain appropriate author attribution. Any commercial use of a
work
(d) "Non-substantial parts" means any part other than the whole or a substantial
A "substantial part" includes anything which when compiled into playable form
(together with
any other code from any origin required to render it playable) replicates or
reproduces
to any substantially similar extent the gameplay, graphics, sound or visual design
of
(including for example the player experience of visiting any individual planet,
is permitted ONLY in modpacks as set out further in section 37 below. Apart from
modpacks,
Java or for non-Java gaming platforms including mobile or console versions are
PROHIBITED
(f) All permissions in this section 28 are subject to the proviso that no other
person
may present Galacticraft's source code or any derived work or any compiled version
as
being their own work or take any action which denies the Galacticraft developers'
ability to publish the source code in accordance with the overriding principle.
Technic platform or similar sites, are permitted in accordance with the modpack
29. To the extent that Galacticraft uses parts of the code which are or have
previously been licensed on the LGPL or GPL basis or any other licensing
basis, that licence is to be applied subject to the above when such source
code for their own use and to reverse engineer the distributed binaries
not authorised.
31. This copyright and licensing document itself is excluded from the
licence terms above. This is a copyright and proprietary legal document and
it must NOT be copied by any other person, in whole or in part, except for
32. This document and the licence granted hereby are granted under the law
33. The copyright in Galacticraft and the licence granted hereby are
extent applicable also all the other intellectual property rights or equivalent
the computer code, text, artwork, designs, technologies and sounds contained
in Galacticraft.
and shall not affect the other parts and provisions of this document and
35. This document and the licence granted hereby may be updated from time
to time, in which case the updated terms apply to any person continuing to
use Galacticraft or its source code after the date of such update, as a
or its source code prior to the date this document first came into force
its source code does not thereby obtain ownership of Galacticraft, but
merely a copy of it which may be used only on the terms licenced by the
Modpacks permission
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37. Permission is hereby granted for Galacticraft (in its compiled, Java
"Galacticraft" in its name nor in any other way present itself as being an
players with a link to Galacticraft's source code, but they must not attempt
the overriding principle; (c) the Galacticraft code and other elements
in the compiled binary must not be altered and every copy of Galacticraft's
compiled binary code must include, within the relevant .jar or .zip or other
create a bona fide pack of multiple mods playable in the Java versions of