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joncrocks on Aug 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nintendo Open Source Software Source Code Distribu...

I think you also have to provide details of the licence/licensed components alongside your distributed software, so that users know they can actually request the source-code.

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html - "And you must show them these terms so they know their rights"

caw on Aug 1, 2014 [–]

Most games have all of this info in the credits, and if you get a manual anymore, in there.

TazeTSchnitzel on Aug 2, 2014 | [–]

Nintendo games all have manuals, they're just not physical. For example, if you put a 3DS Game Cart into a 3DS, there's a Manual button to bring up a nice HTML-style manual.

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