Legal

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Check out our GitHub,and help out if you like! CodeCombat is built on dozens of open source projects, and we love them. See our Archmage wikifor a list of the software that makes this game possible.

Respectful Best Practices

These are our promises to you, the player, in slightly less legalese.

Privacy

We will not sell any of your personal information.

Security

We strive to keep your personal information safe. As an open source project, our site is freely open to anyone to review and improve our security systems.

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Copyrights and Licenses

Contributor License Agreement

All contributions, both on the site and on our GitHub repository, are subject to ourCLA,to which you should agree before contributing.

Client-Side Code - MIT

All client-side code for codecombat.com in the public GitHub repository and in the codecombat.com database, is licensed under theMIT license.This includes all code in Systems and Components that are made available by CodeCombat for the purpose of creating levels.

Art/Music - Creative Commons

All common content is available under theCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Common content is anything made generally available by CodeCombat for the purpose of creating Levels. This includes:

  • Music
  • Sound
  • Artwork
  • Sprites
  • Any and all other non-code creative works that are made available when creating Levels.

Currently there is no universal, easy system for fetching these assets. In general, fetch them from the URLs as used by the site, contact us for assistance, or help us in extending the site to make these assets more easily accessible.

For attribution, please name and link to codecombat.com near where the source is used or where appropriate for the medium. For example:

  • If used in a movie or another game, include codecombat.com in the credits.
  • If used on a website, include a link near the usage, for example underneath an image, or in a general attributions page where you might also mention other Creative Commons works and open source software being used on the site. Something that's already clearly referencing CodeCombat, such as a blog post mentioning CodeCombat, does not need some separate attribution.

If the content being used is created not by CodeCombat but instead by a user of codecombat.com, attribute them instead, and follow attribution directions provided in that resource's description if there are any.

Rights Reserved

All rights are reserved for Levels themselves. This includes

  • Scripts
  • Unit configuration
  • Description
  • Writings
  • Media (sounds, music) and any other creative content made specifically for that Level and not made generally available when creating Levels.

To clarify, anything that is made available in the Level Editor for the purpose of making levels is under CC, whereas the content created with the Level Editor or uploaded in the course of creation of Levels is not.

In a Nutshell

Any resources we provide in the Level Editor are free to use as you like for creating Levels. But we reserve the right to restrict distribution of the Levels themselves (that are created on codecombat.com) so that they may be charged for.

See also: LICENSE-LEVELS.md

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