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		neatze on May 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C > Permafrost Engine is licensed under the GPLv3, with a special linking exception. This is most awesome thing, I wish more projects would use linking exception! Just in case someone will reuse code on server side; why not to use AGPL instead of GPL ?

chc on May 12, 2021 [–]

What's strange is the README says this, but I don't see a linking exception in the actual license.

neatze on May 12, 2021 | [–]

It's per source code file, and it is not explicitly defined what is and what is not an engine API calls.

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