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# Amulet Map Editor License 1.0.0
# Based on PolyForm Strict License 1.0.0
# Adds a clause allowing changes and new works
# Adds a clause allowing distribution back to the licensor
# These two clauses are modified from PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0
# Added a clause to allow commercial educational usage

## Acceptance

In order to get any license under these terms, you must agree
to them as both strict obligations and conditions to all
your licenses.

## Copyright License

The licensor grants you a copyright license for the
software to do everything you might do with the software
that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright
in it for any permitted purpose. However, you may
only distribute the software according to [Distribution
License](#distribution-license) and make changes or new works
based on the software according to [Changes and New Works
License](#changes-and-new-works-license).

## Distribution License

The licensor grants you an additional copyright license
to distribute copies of the software for the sole purpose
of submitting changes or new works to the licensor.
Your license to distribute covers distributing the software
with changes and new works permitted by [Changes and New Works
License](#changes-and-new-works-license).

## Changes and New Works License

The licensor grants you an additional copyright license to
make changes and new works based on the software for any
permitted purpose.

## Patent License

The licensor grants you a patent license for the software that
covers patent claims the licensor can license, or becomes able
to license, that you would infringe by using the software.

## Noncommercial Purposes

Any noncommercial purpose is a permitted purpose.

## Commercial Educational Purposes

Commercial use purely for educational purpose is a permitted purpose.

## Personal Uses

Personal use for research, experiment, and testing for
the benefit of public knowledge, personal study, private
entertainment, hobby projects, amateur pursuits, or religious
observance, without any anticipated commercial application,
is use for a permitted purpose.

## Noncommercial Organizations

Use by any charitable organization, educational institution,
public research organization, public safety or health
organization, environmental protection organization,
or government institution is use for a permitted purpose
regardless of the source of funding or obligations resulting
from the funding.

## Fair Use

You may have "fair use" rights for the software under the
law. These terms do not limit them.

## No Other Rights

These terms do not allow you to sublicense or transfer any of
your licenses to anyone else, or prevent the licensor from
granting licenses to anyone else. These terms do not imply
any other licenses.

## Patent Defense

If you make any written claim that the software infringes or
contributes to infringement of any patent, your patent license
for the software granted under these terms ends immediately. If
your company makes such a claim, your patent license ends
immediately for work on behalf of your company.

## Violations

The first time you are notified in writing that you have
violated any of these terms, or done anything with the software
not covered by your licenses, your licenses can nonetheless
continue if you come into full compliance with these terms,
and take practical steps to correct past violations, within
32 days of receiving notice. Otherwise, all your licenses
end immediately.

## No Liability

***As far as the law allows, the software comes as is, without
any warranty or condition, and the licensor will not be liable
to you for any damages arising out of these terms or the use
or nature of the software, under any kind of legal claim.***

## Definitions

The **licensor** is the individual or entity offering these
terms, and the **software** is the software the licensor makes
available under these terms.

**You** refers to the individual or entity agreeing to these
terms.

**Your company** is any legal entity, sole proprietorship,
or other kind of organization that you work for, plus all
organizations that have control over, are under the control of,
or are under common control with that organization. **Control**
means ownership of substantially all the assets of an entity,
or the power to direct its management and policies by vote,
contract, or otherwise. Control can be direct or indirect.

**Your licenses** are all the licenses granted to you for the
software under these terms.

**Use** means anything you do with the software requiring one
of your licenses.
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# Licenses

See [LICENSE]() for the real license.
This is a simplified version.

There are two licences that cover the various Amulet codebases.
1) The Amulet Map Editor License
2) The Amulet Library License

The former applies to the code that makes up the user interface (this repository) and the bundled form of the program and the latter applies to a number of libraries that Amulet uses.

This summary will only cover the former. See the libraries for the latter.

## Motive
We want everyone to be able to use and contribute to Amulet, however developing the program costs money.
Pathway are currently sponsoring the project but we need to design the licence to leave open potential income sources.

## License Summary
- The program is free to use for non-commercial users.
- The program is free to use for purely educational commercial purposes.
- If your use case does not fit in the above you should chat to us about a commercial licence.
- You are allowed to modify the code however you wish and submit changes to us if you like.
- You are not allowed to redistribute our code unless explicitly licenced to allow otherwise.


## Frequently Asked Questions

### Am I allowed to use Amulet to edit my world?

You can use Amulet for free as long as:
- You are not making money using Amulet.
- You are not making money from the content made using Amulet.

### Can I make money using Amulet in an education setting?
You are allowed to use Amulet for free and make money if your usage is purely educational.

Examples of educational usage:
- Monetising videos or other materials explaining how to use Amulet.
- Earning an income from teaching how to use Amulet or using Amulet to help teach other subjects.

Any content (eg. worlds or structures) created during that time must be used solely for educational purposes and may not be sold or used in any other commercial environment.

### Can I make money using Amulet?

Commercial usage includes getting paid to use Amulet and the manufacture of content (eg. worlds or structures) that is later monetised.

If you are using Amulet in a commercial setting that does not fit into the educational exception then you should contact us about a commercial licence.

### Can I redistribute or rehost your code?
No. Unless the code is explicitly licensed to allow otherwise, you cannot redistribute or rehost any code from Amulet.

This includes the code in both source and compiled forms.

The only exception to this is forking the original repository on Github with the aim to modify or improve on the code.

Some files (such as editor operations) are released under the MIT licence to allow redistribution. These files will have the MIT licence at the top of the file.

### Can I modify any part of Amulet?
You are allowed to modify Amulet however you like.

If you want to make improvements we accept code submissions through pull requests.

### Can I make and sell plugins for Amulet?
Plugins are extensions to Amulet. 3D Editor Operations are an example of plugins for Amulet.

Operations are programs that can be run from within Amulet Map Editor in the operations tab of the 3D editor.

You are allowed to make, distribute and license your operations however you wish.

You are also allowed to make money through the sale or licensing of your operations if you wish.

Your operations can call Amulet code but may not directly include any Amulet code unless licenced to allow redistribution.
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This is intended for developers wishing to contribute code to the project.

### License
In order to contribute to the project you must agree that your submission can be used, hosted
and redistributed for use by others under the terms of the [license](../LICENSE) for the project.
Upon creating a pull request you will be asked to confirm that you acknowledge this.

### Branch Naming
A branch must be created in order to contribute code to the project.
Unless you have permissions to create branches in Amulet-Team you will first need to [fork the repository](https://docs.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/fork-a-repo).
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This is intended for anyone wishing to contribute translations to the project.

### License
All language files contained within amulet_map_editor/lang are licensed under the MIT license.
Any contributions you make to these files are made under the MIT license.
If you wish to contribute a new language it must include the MIT license header as found in the other files.
Upon creating a pull request you will be asked to confirm that you acknowledge this.

### Language Files
In order to support translations of text in the user interface all of the text has been moved into .lang files located in `amulet_map_editor/lang`.
The name of these lang files are RFC 1766 format language codes.
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