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VCAT VISUAL EFFECTS NON-COMMERCIAL LICENSE 1.0
short name: "VCatNC-1.0"
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Copyright (c) 2025 V_BlackCAT. All rights reserved.
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0. ORIGIN
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This is an independent custom license. It is not an official version of, and is
not endorsed by, any other license. Its structure borrows from the PolyForm
Noncommercial License 1.0.0 (the definition of non-commercial use), the GNU
Lesser General Public License v2.1 (the distinction between use-by-dependency
and wholesale incorporation), and Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 (attribution,
non-commercial, and share-alike).
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1. DEFINITIONS
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"The Mod" is VCat Visual Effects (mod id: vcat_visual_effects), including its
Java source code, GLSL shaders, configuration and all accompanying files.
"The Software" is the Java source code and the GLSL shaders of the Mod.
"The Assets" are the textures, models, sounds, logo and language files of the
Mod.
"You" is the individual or organisation exercising the rights granted here.
"Derivative Work" is anything that incorporates all or a substantial part of the
Software, including third-party Minecraft mods, plugins, modpack patches and
repackaged builds.
"Reference by dependency" means your work contains no copy of the Software and
instead declares a runtime mod dependency on the Mod, and calls its public
classes and methods.
"Non-commercial" and "commercial" are defined in section 3.1.
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2. GRANT
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Subject to full compliance with this license, you are granted a worldwide,
royalty-free, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable license to:
(a) copy, use and modify the Software;
(b) combine the Software with your own work by reference by dependency;
(c) distribute the Software and Derivative Works.
No trademark or patent rights are granted. No rights in the Assets are granted.
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3. CONDITIONS
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You must satisfy all of the following.
3.1 NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY
You may use the Software for non-commercial purposes only.
"Commercial" includes, but is not limited to: selling the Mod or a Derivative
Work, or requiring payment to obtain, download or use it; placing it behind a
paywall, paid membership or subscription; earning revenue from advertising,
sponsorship or revenue share on a distribution that includes it; bundling it
into a for-profit modpack, server or service; and any other use whose primary
purpose is monetary or commercial gain.
The following are NOT commercial and are permitted: free modpacks and datapacks
distributed at no charge; servers that accept voluntary donations, provided that
donating does not unlock the Mod or a Derivative Work; free videos, streams and
articles that feature it; and private, personal, academic or research use.
3.2 DEPENDENCY OBLIGATION (CORE CLAUSE)
Any third-party work that uses all or any substantial part of the Software must:
(a) reference the Mod by dependency, that is, declare a required dependency on
"vcat_visual_effects" in its META-INF/mods.toml (Forge) or
META-INF/neoforge.mods.toml (NeoForge), for example:
[[dependencies.your_modid]]
modId = "vcat_visual_effects"
mandatory = true
versionRange = "[1.0.0,)"
ordering = "AFTER"
side = "BOTH"
(b) NOT copy, inline, embed or repackage the Mod's class files, GLSL shaders
or assets into its own jar or distribution; and
(c) state on its project page that it depends on the Mod, and where the Mod
can be obtained.
Using mandatory = false is permitted only if you use none of the Software and
merely interact with the Mod optionally through its public interface.
3.3 ATTRIBUTION
You must keep this license, or a link to it, together with the original
copyright notice. You must not remove, hide or alter existing copyright, licence
or author notices in the Software.
3.4 SHARE-ALIKE
Your modifications and Derivative Works must be released under this license, or
under a compatible license approved in writing by the copyright holder. You may
not relicense them under a more permissive license, such as MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL
or LGPL, or any license that permits commercial use. You may not impose any
further restrictions on recipients beyond those in this license.
3.5 ASSETS
No rights in the Assets are granted. Except where applicable law expressly allows
it, or with prior written permission from the copyright holder, you may not copy,
modify or redistribute the Mod's textures, models, sounds, logo or language
files. Referencing the Mod by dependency is not redistribution of the Assets.
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4. COMMERCIAL LICENSING
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If you want to use the Software commercially, or want an exemption from section
3.2, you must obtain prior written authorisation from the copyright holder. Your
rights are then governed by that authorisation, which prevails over this license
where the two conflict.
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5. TERMINATION
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Your rights under this license terminate automatically if you breach any of its
terms, without notice. They are reinstated from the date you fully cure the
breach, if you do so within 30 days of discovering or being notified of it and
notify the copyright holder in writing. Sections 3.3, 6 and 7 survive
termination. Third parties who lawfully obtained a copy of the Mod from you keep
their own license as long as they comply with it.
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6. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
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THE MOD IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU BEAR ALL RISK ARISING FROM ITS USE,
INCLUDING CORRUPTED WORLDS, GAME CRASHES, DATA LOSS AND HARDWARE DAMAGE.
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7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
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TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER SHALL IN
NO EVENT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA OR BUSINESS, ARISING OUT
OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS LICENSE OR THE MOD, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT,
TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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8. MISCELLANEOUS
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If any provision of this license is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining
provisions remain in full force. This license is the entire agreement between you
and the copyright holder concerning the Mod. The copyright holder may publish new
versions of this license; they are not retroactive, and a license you already
obtained under an earlier version remains valid under that version.
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