What are the differences between the system used by this mod and the one used by NCR?
TechPro424 opened this issue · 8 comments
What are the differences between the "disable chat report" system used by this mod and the one used by No Chat Reports?
At it's core? This mod does practically the same as No Chat Reports, with the main difference being customization.
If you have No Chat Reports installed client-side you don't send your public key / don't encrypt messages to servers. No Chat Reports does not allow the option to disable this, though this seems to have changed in this recent commit.
Besides that, there isn't much difference. It's pick whichever mod you prefer. Pick No Chat Reports? That's fine, it's a good mod, I'm not gonna hold you back. Pick No Prying Eyes? That's fine too, it provides some features that I personally would prefer using over No Chat Reports, and thus I will stick with my own mod.
One thing I should also mention which is a rather big difference is licensing.
No Chat Reports is licensed under the WTFPL license. This means that anyone can do whatever with the code, including making it proprietary.
No Prying Eyes is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license, which means you can basically do whatever you want, as long as the code remains open-source and you refer to the original source.
Is it a big difference to me? No, not really. I just like keeping things open-source.
Switched to NPE from NCR because open-source better
yeah i was just replying to this
What I meant by "open-source better" was that keeping projects open source using licenses like GPLv3 is better
ik NCR is open source
but yeah I agree that the comment wasn't too clear on that
NCR is open source, it's even opener source with abosolutely no restrictions - that's what WTFPL means.
You make a very good point. I can't really argue with it. But I personally prefer the GPL license since I do not want people to take advantage or profit from my work (which I do not earn a red cent on). While it most certainly is true that WTFPL allows more freedom of use with the code and the likes, it can be used for malicious practices.
I have been considering switching most of my licenses out for something like MIT or GPLv2, but I don't see myself using WTFPL anytime soon. A part of my upbringing was "never let people take advantage of your work", and I'm staying true to that when writing FOSS.
This is a case of personal preference.
By taking advantage I mean maliciously. I don't mind people using it in their own hobby projects and the likes of course.