diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c13ec7 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE @@ -0,0 +1,242 @@ + Essential Partner Mod Integration™ + Use and Contribution License Agreement + Last Updated: 17th April 2025 + +This Use and Contribution License Agreement allows you to modify, create, fork, +and use new versions of our Essential Partner Mod Integration in accordance with +the GPL-3 License. However, if you submit a pull request with changes or +additions to the main Essential Partner Mod Integration repository, subject to +the terms of this license, you transfer the copyright and ownership of those +changes to Essential. This introduction is for summary purposes only and does +not constitute part of the agreement. + + * * * + +ModCore Inc., doing business as Essential™ ("Essential"), owns, publishes, +and makes available for download and use its Essential Partner Mod Integration™ +modification to the Minecraft® game (collectively with all of its features +and content and all updates thereto and versions thereof, the "Mod"), +including its underlying source code (collectively with all updates thereto and +versions thereof, the "Mod Code"), subject to the terms of this Use and +Contribution License Agreement (this "Agreement"). Each individual, +corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other +entity or party (each, a "Person") that downloads and/or uses the Mod and/or +the Mod Code (each, a "User") shall be deemed to have accepted, executed, and +be bound by the terms of this Agreement. + +EACH INDIVIDUAL USER MUST BE AT LEAST EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OLD TO DOWNLOAD +AND/OR USE THE MOD AND THE MOD CODE OR, IF BETWEEN THE AGES OF THIRTEEN +(13) AND EIGHTEEN (18), HAVE THE PERMISSION OF THEIR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN +AND HEREBY REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT THEY HAVE OBTAINED SUCH PERMISSION. + +NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and +sufficiency of which are hereby accepted: + +1. GNU General Public License v.3.0. + +The GNU General Public License v.3.0, dated 29th June 2007, available at +https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html (as amended from time to time, +"GPL-3"), is hereby incorporated by reference into, and made part of, this +Agreement and governs each User's download and use of the Mod and the Mod +Code; provided, however, to the extent of any conflict between any +permissions, rights, obligations, terms, or conditions in this Agreement and +GPL-3, this Agreement shall govern and control, including where expressly +stated under Section 3 of this Agreement. All other rights in and to the Mod +and the Mod Code are hereby expressly reserved. For purposes of GPL-3, the +Mod Code, in the form published from time to time in its code repository +presently located at https://github.com/EssentialGG/EssentialPartnerMod +(the "Mod Repository"), is the "Program" as defined therein. + +2. 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Any and all of an Accepted Contribution that is incorporated by +Essential into the Mod Code shall become fully part of, and inseparable from, +the Mod Code and, to the extent copyrightable, the copyright claimed +exclusively by Essential and its assignees in and to the Mod Code, whether or +not registered with the U.S. Copyright Office or any other copyright +registrar; a Contributor shall not register, or apply or attempt to register, +their Accepted Contribution(s) with the U.S. Copyright Office or any other +copyright registrar or otherwise claim status as a "joint copyright owner" +with respect thereto. This Section 4 shall control to the extent that there +are any conflicting terms and conditions contained in GPL-3 applicable to +ownership of the Accepted Contribution and its Contributor's use thereof, +including, without limitation, Paragraph 2 of Section 2 (Basic Permissions), +Section 5 (Conveying Modified Source Versions), and Section 6 (Conveying Non- +Source Forms) thereof, and all such activities shall constitute a breach of +this Section 4. + +5. 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Changes to this Agreement and the License Terms. + +Essential may change or amend this Agreement at any time at its sole +discretion. If Essential makes a material change or amendment to this +Agreement, it will notify each User by posting such changes or amendments on +Essential's website and other website(s) where Essential makes the Mod and/or +Mod Code available for download (e.g., a GitHub repository), which changes or +amendments will be effective automatically upon the posting thereof. IF A USER +DEEMS ANY OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY FUTURE CHANGES TO BE UNACCEPTABLE, THAT +USER SHOULD NOT USE OR CONTINUE TO USE THE MOD OR THE MOD CODE AND DELETE +ALL DOWNLOADED COPIES OF THE MOD CODE IN THEIR POSSESSION OR STORED ON ANY OF +THEIR DEVICES. A USER'S CONTINUED USE OF THE MOD AND/OR MOD CODE FOLLOWING +THE POSTING OF ANY NOTICE OF ANY CHANGE TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL CONSTITUTE +THEIR ACCEPTANCE AND AGREEMENT TO SUCH CHANGE. + + [End of Agreement] \ No newline at end of file