Licence and cost
What Streamlord costs, what you may do with it, what is not promised, and how to contribute or fork.
What it costs
Nothing.
The reason is not a promise, it is the licence. Streamlord is released under MIT, and every released version stays MIT. That permission is irrevocable. It cannot be withdrawn by anyone, including us, and it holds even if the project is one day set aside.
So you do not have to trust our intentions. You can read the licence file.
What you may do
Everything ordinary, without asking:
- use Streamlord commercially, in as many projects as you like
- change it, and keep those changes to yourself
- ship it inside a product you sell, including a closed one
- publish your own version of it
The one condition is that the copyright notice and the licence text travel with copies of the
software. Both are in every jar, as META-INF/, so in practice this happens by itself.
You owe no further credit, no link back, and no notice that you are using it.
What is not promised
MIT disclaims all warranty, and that is not a formality.
- no guarantee that anything works
- no obligation on us to answer, to fix, or to release again
- no timeline
Streamlord follows semantic versioning and the changelog records what a consumer would notice, but a version contract is not a support contract. The licence makes the code yours forever. It does not make us your supplier.
The name is not included
MIT gives away the code. It does not give away the name.
Streamlord, Gorvek, Gallowmark and the mark are not part of the grant. Fork the code and do what you like with it, but do not call the result Streamlord, publish a package under that name, or suggest that it comes from here.
This is the usual arrangement in open source, and it exists for your sake as much as ours: a name that means one particular thing is what makes it possible to say what you actually depend on.
Contributions
Issues are always welcome. A bug report, a question or an idea costs you nothing to send and us nothing to read.
Pull requests are taken after a conversation. Say what you want to do in an issue before you write the code. That is not a barrier, it is a kindness: this repository enforces things that are not obvious from the outside, and we would rather tell you before you spend an evening than after.
Whoever contributes signs the contributor agreement. You keep the copyright in what you write. The agreement gives the maintainer the right to license your contribution on other terms later, so that one contribution does not lock the project’s future. Everything already published under MIT stays MIT whatever happens.
Forking
Fork it.
If you need something Streamlord does not do, disagree with a decision, or want to take it somewhere we will not: take your copy and go. No permission, no explanation.
That you can continue without us is not a weakness in the project. It is the whole point of giving it away under MIT. All we ask is that what you build gets its own name.
Datastar Pro
Datastar Pro is Star Federation’s commercial product, not ours, and nothing here requires it.
streamlord-html-pro contains no Pro code at all, only the attribute names, and is inert without
the bundle you licensed yourself. That page explains it in full.