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The purpose of the jam is for anyone to look at your source and learn from it. Under US copyright law, you own your work by default. You may include a license file with your source stating it's viewable for educational purposes only. If you are uncomfortable sharing your source, you cannot submit to this jam.

As for strangeness, the largest game jam in the world (ludum dare) requires source as part of submission for the compo.

Guilherme Raimondi4 years ago

Oh cool, so by the law people cant use it already? I dont understand very much how copyright works.
Could you give me an example of this license file to state that it's viewable for educational purposes only?

Yang Pulse4 years ago(+1)

See the top-voted answer in this link about just throwing a copyright notice into your project (can just be a text file called COPYRIGHT).
https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2907/does-the-owner-of-the-github...

Guilherme Raimondi4 years ago

Can I post a read only source code? It wouldn't hurt the purpouse of the jam which as you said "is for anyone to look at your source and learn from it".

pixelook4 years ago(+1)

Hi,
Upload it to github or similar service, there it can be as "read only" so nobody can modify "that your version".
But still, you can't force the viewer not to use part of your code / solutions.

Guilherme Raimondi4 years ago

Yeah, I'll do just that. Thank you!

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