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MrMorph:
Hi folks,

I'm working on a commercial mod and am trying to understand the licenses for SMF1 and SMF2, because I mean to make versions for both.

Basically, I would like to strip down SSI.php to the bare minimum, so I just have access to security, database and a few other things.  I don't want all those functions in SSI and there's a lot else I do not need.

I would have to distribute my new file with my mod.

For SMF1 it looks like this would be considered a derivative work and so cannot be sold.

For SFM2 I am not so sure what to do about.

My business model is simply going to be a yearly subscription for updates to the mod.

Where do I stand ? Can anyone shed some light please ?

Many thanks :)

Ricky.:
SMF 2 comes with BSD 3 clause license, in short it allows you to do whatever  you want unless you are not removing copyright from source code. So if you are using SMF code in your code then mention that you have used their code and its their copyright.

There is great topic about something related by IchBin : SMF mods copyright , hopefully it will help you.

Kindred:
I am curious as to why you would need to do this anyway....


if it's a mod for SMF (any version) then SSI is included in every copy of SMF by default. You don't need to strip down or distribute anything, since every installation of SMF has the full SSI already.

MrMorph:
Thanks Ricky, I will have a look at that.  I thought SMF2 looked to be more open, but wasn't sure so cheers for the clarification.

Kindred, yes I could easily include SSI.php every time I need it, but for my mod that would be inefficient - I don't need all of what it does, so hence me wanting to trim it down a bit.

I can't go into great detail at the moment, non disclosure and all that, but I will try using SSI as it is and test it to see how fast it is.  I'm guessing it is pretty fast, but I would like to eliminate the functions in there that will not even get used by mod.  I really only need security and database functions.

Thanks for your replies, much appreciated :)

Runic:
but why not just add what you want to the ssi page ... makes more sense as its already there.

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