diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 01f371f5e..e13ddb763 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -74,10 +74,10 @@ We recommend committing first and then making the tag, that tag will point to th on. ## Code Licensing -SlimeVR uses an MIT license, and some parts of the project use a dual MIT/Apache 2.0 -license. Be sure that any code that you reference, or dependencies you add, are -compatible with these licenses. `GPL-v3` for example is not compatible because it -requires any and all code that depends on it to *also* be licensed under `GPL-v3`. +SlimeVR uses dual MIT and Apache-2.0 license. Be sure that any code that you reference, +or dependencies you add, are compatible with these licenses. `GPL-v3` for example is +not compatible because it requires any and all code that depends on it to *also* be +licensed under `GPL-v3`. ## Discord We use discord *a lot* to coordinate and discuss development. Come join us at diff --git a/LICENSE-APACHE b/LICENSE-APACHE index cd5796465..8c497fef6 100644 --- a/LICENSE-APACHE +++ b/LICENSE-APACHE @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ same "printed page" as the copyright notice for easier identification within third-party archives. - Copyright 2022 Eiren Rain and SlimeVR Contributors + Copyright 2020 Eiren Rain and SlimeVR Contributors Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. diff --git a/LICENSE-MIT b/LICENSE-MIT index 6eefae0aa..7e8a5bdb4 100644 --- a/LICENSE-MIT +++ b/LICENSE-MIT @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ MIT License -Copyright (c) 2022 Eiren Rain and SlimeVR Contributors +Copyright (c) 2020 Eiren Rain and SlimeVR Contributors Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c096308c5..b360e7531 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -17,17 +17,17 @@ It's recommended to download installer from here: https://github.com/SlimeVR/Sli Latest instructions are [on our site](https://docs.slimevr.dev/server-setup/slimevr-setup.html). ## License Clarification -**SlimeVR software** (including server, firmware, drivers, installator, documents, and others - see -licence for each case specifically) **is distributed under the MIT License ([LICENSE-MIT]) -and in some cases dually licensed under Apache-2.0 License ([LICENSE-APACHE]). These -licenses are the copyright of Eiren Rain and the SlimeVR contributors.** +**SlimeVR software** (including server, firmware, drivers, installer, documents, and others - see +licence for each case specifically) **is distributed under a dual MIT/Apache 2.0 License +([LICENSE-MIT] and [LICENSE-APACHE]). The software is the copyright of the SlimeVR +contributors.** -**However, these Licenses have some limits, and if you wish to distribute software based +**However, these licenses have some limits, and if you wish to distribute software based on SlimeVR, you need to be aware of them:** * When distributing any software that uses or is based on SlimeVR, you have to provide to the end-user at least one of the original, unmodified [LICENSE-MIT] or - [LICENSE-APACHE] files from SlimeVR. This includes the `Copyright (c) 2022 Eiren Rain + [LICENSE-APACHE] files from SlimeVR. This includes the `Copyright (c) 2020 Eiren Rain and SlimeVR Contributors` part of the license. It is insufficient to use a generic MIT or Apache-2.0 License, **it must be the original license file**. * This applies even if you distribute software without the source code. In this case,