[INFORM 7] A query regarding extensions, their use, and where they are published.

[Stuart Moore]

<quote>
For the avoidance of doubt, though: the public only gains these rights
to use an extension if its author voluntarily chooses to publish it at
the Inform website.
</quote>

This means that if someone were to upload an extension to the IF
Archive, and not to the Inform website, nobody else could use it. Is
this correct, or intended?

--
Stuart "Sslaxx" Moore
http://sslaxx.livejournal.com/

[Graham Nelson]

Evidently this passage in the documentation should try a little harder
to avoid doubt: I will rephrase it. The intended meaning was "don't
assume that an extension is published with a Creative Commons license
just because it's an extension": just as Inform allows you to write a
commercial, all-rights-reserved work of IF if you like, so it also
allows you to write a commercial, all-rights-reserved extension. Or a
shareware extension, or something like that. (I could imagine cases
where the IF Archive might want to hold a copy of such a thing.)

So my meaning was that an extension uploaded to the Inform website
would automatically have a Creative Commons license, but that otherwise
you should check with the extension's author, or see what has otherwise
been said.