Cheat Engine

Euphoria133 · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 11 Apr 2022 Posts: 16

I am so confused, cheat engine claims to be open source but there is no info whatsoever about the license.

I want to know if I can modify/improve or use the code in my project for example the speedhack and the memory/aob scanner in our trainer?

Can someone clarify if ce is open source and what license it uses?

Csimbi · Last edited by Csimbi on Mon Apr 18, 2022 5:22 am; edited 1 time in total

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See Dark Byte's response below.

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:55 am Post subject:

No license. You can't use it in your own projects. (ce is source available, not open source)

But you are free to learn from the sourcecode and of course build personal versions for your own use but not distribute to others

Euphoria133 · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 11 Apr 2022 Posts: 16

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2022 10:13 am Post subject:

Still no license there(CE's sourcecode never had one). for personal stuff you can use it. For public projects not so much unless you get a specific license from me for distribution

Euphoria133 · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 11 Apr 2022 Posts: 16

Dark Byte · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2022 11:25 am Post subject:

That's maybe your interpretarion but for me as a non-native english speaking person, it's 'opensource'/'publicsource' without opensource license (no, not artistical or gpl) just so that people can learn from it and use it for themselves. And certainly not for commercial purposes

ParkourPenguin · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2022 3:51 pm Post subject:

If DB hasn't included a software license or explicitly placed CE in the public domain through a waiver, CE is almost certainly covered under the Berne Convention.

DB saying CE is "open source" at some point in time is not a license in any way. DB's use of the term "open source" clearly differs from how the OSI uses that same term (I assume you're using the OSI's definition of "open source"). This is a matter of discrepant semantics and doesn't have any legal merit by itself.

Csimbi · Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:39 am Post subject:

Spot on, being open source does not mean you'd have free reign over the products you build off of it. It simply means you have a change to look at the code. If you have not been given a blanket permission (think along the lines of a GPU-like license) or an expressed permission (individual permission) to reuse the code, you simply can't.

Have you ever wondered why there are so many open source license variants?
Do you think when Windows goes open source, MS will let you release your own OS based on that code?

Open source is there for a community who would like to understand how things work, to help improve something, or, simply, to satisfy curiosity.

Euphoria133 · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 11 Apr 2022 Posts: 16

Csimbi · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 1:44 am Post subject:

Bernice · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 03 Apr 2022 Posts: 6

The simplest explanation is that open source licenses are legal and binding contracts between the author and the user of a software component, declaring that the software can be used in commercial applications under specified conditions. The license is what turns code into an open source component.