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The definition of open source / free software is quite short and succinct, as can be seen by the Free Software Defintion (aka "Four Freedoms") ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition ), the Debian Free Software Guidelines ( http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines ) and Open Source Definition ( http://www.opensource.org/osd.html ).

The absolute deal breaker with CC-NC-SA that would stop it dead from being "open source" is the "NC" or "non-commercial" clause.

For someone just playing around, this isn't too much of a problem. But when you start building & distributing it, you start to run into headaches. e.g. If you were to improve this lots and make it way better, and put it on your website, would you be allowed to have Google Ads on your webpage? Is that a commercial use of this? You can never sell a computer fully loaded with linux and this game, cause that's a commercial use, etc.

Imagine



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