Licence

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

1. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

2. No licensee or downstream recipient may use the Software (including any modified or derivative versions) to directly compete with the original Licensor by offering it to third parties as a hosted, managed, or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product or cloud service where the primary value of the service is the functionality of the Software itself.

The Software 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 noninfringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the Software or the use or other dealings in the Software.

This project uses the O'SaaSy Licence, created by DHH at 37signals. It's the MIT licence with SaaS rights reserved for the copyright holder. You're free to use, modify and learn from the code. You just can't repackage it as a competing hosted service.

What about the games?

The O'SaaSy licence covers the EZ-AZ storefront: the store page, the server, the shelf, and all the bits that keep the lights on. The games themselves are a different story.

Every game on EZ-AZ is open source under the MIT Licence. Copy them, remix them, learn from them, share them with your mates. That's the whole point.

If you submit a game to EZ-AZ, it stays yours. You keep full ownership of your work. By submitting, you're granting EZ-AZ permission to host and display your game on the store, and you're agreeing to release your game under the MIT Licence so other kids and families can learn from it too.

EZ-AZ is a non-commercial project. Nobody is making money here. If it ever grows big enough that hosting costs become real, the O'SaaSy clause gives us the option to cover those costs without someone else cloning the store and undercutting the community. That's all it's there for.