RelicensedGames

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Summary: Add *Piecepack SeaBattle* from Christoph Haeberling to the list (114 classic piecepack games from 49 different designers now available under "better" licenses)

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> == Christoph Haeberling
> Christoph Haeberling wrote "I license Piecepack SeaBattle under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license" in [https://trevorldavis.com/share/piecepack/licensing/christoph_haeberling_license.png a BGG message to] TrevorLDavis

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< * 113 piecepack games from 48 different designers have generously been made available under "better" licenses

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> * 114 piecepack games from 49 different designers have generously been made available under "better" licenses

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< * 39 piecepack games are now under a [https://freedomdefined.org/Licenses Free Cultural Works license] that previously were not
< * 25 piecepack games that were originally "All Rights Reserved" are now available under a Creative Commons license

to

> * 40 piecepack games are now under a [https://freedomdefined.org/Licenses Free Cultural Works license] that previously were not
> * 26 piecepack games that were originally "All Rights Reserved" are now available under a Creative Commons license


Re-licensed Games

Sometimes game designers dual/re-license their games. And sometimes they cannot or don't want to update the original rules. Saying it somewhere publicly is usually enough but gets lost easily. This page collects which designers have dual/re-licensed which games and where they have said it.

Not all the games' pages reflect that license yet.

Clark Rodeffer

ClarkRodeffer wrote "with the exception of War and Piecepack (which is owned by Blue Panther), for any of my other piecepack games that may have originally been released under various other licensing, feel free to now use them under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)" on a BGG forum thread.

Ron Hale-Evans

RonHaleEvans wrote "all my existing piecepack games (and the ones I've coauthored with Marty) are now licensed under CC-BY-SA" in a mailinglist post. Further clarified in comments on the wiki (#1, #2) to more precisely mean that they are dual licensing all of their existing piecepack games under the CC BY-SA 4.0 International license.

Mark Goadrich

MarkGoadrich wrote "I'm happy to dual-license *Cell Management* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis.

Don Kirkby, Jay Cormier, and Alan Price

New version(s) of ArmyBrats, CoinCollectors, and CreamOfTheCrop are now CC BY-SA 4.0.

Steven Beard

Steve_Beard wrote "I dual-license *A Knight's Tale*, *Ahoy, Matey!*, *FrostBitten!*, *piecepack Fan Tan*, *piecepack Hyena*, *Shove piecepack*, and *Tornado vs. Trailer Park* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis.

Clay Blankenship

Clay Blankenship wrote "I license *Froggy Bottom* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis.

Jorge Arroyo

JorgeArroyo wrote "I dual-license *Climbing Man*, *Maze Makers*, *Piecepack Cooking*, and *Space Traders* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

JorgeArroyo wrote "I dual-license *Dungeon Builders*, *Temple of Gold*, *The Wandering Merchant*, and *Virus Fight* under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

Brad Johnson

Brad Johnson wrote "I license *City Planning*, *Conspiracy*, and *Dominoids* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis.

Jonathan C. Dietrich

JonathanDietrich wrote "I dual-license *King's Cottage*, *Pub sCrawl* and *Tariffs* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

Craig Blumer

Craig Blumer wrote "I license *Jokers and Coins* and *Senat* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis.

Chris Brooks

Chris Brooks wrote "I dual-license *PieceGaps* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

Seth Jaffee

Seth Jaffee wrote "I license *Gold Rush* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis.

Mark A. Biggar, Aron Wall, and Gloria Wall

Mark A. Biggar wrote "I dual-license my existing piecepack games under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis.

Mark A. Biggar wrote "We (Aron Wall, Gloria Wall, and Mark A. Biggar) dual-license Global Warming under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis.

Amy Enge and Jim Adams

AmyEnge wrote "I license Elephant Run, It's a Weird, Weird Galaxy, and K'Dak's Tower of Confustion (and Camel Wash) under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis.

Jim Adams wrote "I dual-license Elephant Run, It's a Weird, Weird Galaxy, and K'Dak's Tower of Confustion (and Camel Wash) under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis

Søren Busch-Knudsen and Jesper Sommer

Jesper Sommer wrote (referring to Venice) "you have my permission to do with it as you please under a completely free license" in a LinkedIn message to TrevorLDavis

Søren Busch-Knudsen wrote "I dual-license *Venice* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

Jordan Schmick

JordanSchmick wrote "I dual-license *Starship Attack* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

Jeff Barrett

Jeff Barrett wrote "I’m glad to dual-license *Matrix* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

George Harnish

GeorgeHarnish wrote "I can totally go for the idea of applying https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ to *Piecepack Conquers the World*" in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

S. Deniz Bucak

S. Deniz Bucak wrote "I release the piecepack games *Adultery* and *Incorporated* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license." in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis

Robert Kouba

Robert Kouba wrote "I release the piecepack game *Royal Racers* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license" in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis

Santiago Eximeno

Santiago Eximeno wrote "I dual-license the piecepack game *Castles* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license." in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

David Hassell

David Hassell wrote "I dual-license the piecepack games *Clear!* and *Pack Solitaire* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license." in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis

Tim Schutz

Tim Schutz wrote "I dual-license Crocodile Hop, Ice Floe, The Sorceror's Chamber, and Whirlpool Pond under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in a Facebook Messenger message to TrevorLDavis

Dan Smith

Dan Smith wrote "I license *Croquet for Piecepack* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license." in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

Jeb Havens and Ian Schreiber

Jeb Havens wrote "I dual-license *Bid!* and *The "In" Crowd* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

Ian Schreiber wrote: "Happy to add Bid! to the dual license. The In Crowd, I am personally fine with this, with the caveat that it was co-developed by myself and Jeb Havens and would need his consent as well" in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis (in response to his request that Ian dual-license those games under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license)

Ken Maher

Ken Maher wrote: "I license *Steppin' Stones* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

Don Riddle

Don Riddle wrote: "I license *King of New Tokyo* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis

Seth Owen

Marlene Owen (widow of Seth Owen) wrote: "I license Piecepack at Waterloo under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in a Facebook message to TrevorLDavis

Andy Van Zandt

Andy Van Zandt wrote: "I dual-license The Pirates of Van Zandt and Trade Routes under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License" in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

Mitchell Allen

Mitchell Allen wrote: "I am happy to lend my humble creation to that effort by hereby dual-licensing *Chemin Montagneux* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in an e-mail to TrevorLDavis

Rob LeGood

Rob LeGood wrote: "I dual-license *The Magic Bag* and *New City* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis

James Kyle, Paul Shope, and Chris Young

James Kyle: I hereby dual-license *Dungeon Crawl*, *Fuji-San*, *Hanging Gardens*, *Ley Lines*, *Matches*, *MotoX*, *San Andreas*, *Silver Isle*, *Soccer*, *Takeover*, and *Tula* under Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal (CC0, public domain). Agreement to dual-license *Takeover* under CC0 was obtained from Chris Young on 17 January 2021. Agreement to dual-license *Dungeon Crawl* and *MotoX* under CC0 was obtained from Paul Shope via email on 18 January 2021.

Note: James Kyle confirmed by e-mail that he added the above declaration directly to the wiki on 14 February 2021. --TrevorLDavis

Nathan Morse

RummyRunners was uploaded to BGG under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Simon Graham

Simon Graham wrote: "I dual-license *Volcano Island* under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License" in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis

Roger Meertens

Roger Meertens wrote: "I agree to dual-license Codes, Martian Miners, and Sailing Port Flower under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. I also dual-license my Remembory aka Piecepack Memory ruleset." in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis

Pete Jones

PeteJones wrote: "I dual-license *Sheep* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." in a BoardGameGeek message to TrevorLDavis

Jessica Eccles

Jessica Eccles updated SpeedyTowers to be under the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

Paul Hastings

Paul Hastings wrote "I (of sound mind and body) do hereby dual-license my game *Men Overboard* under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.* in an email to TrevorLDavis

Christoph Haeberling

Christoph Haeberling wrote "I license Piecepack SeaBattle under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license" in a BGG message to TrevorLDavis

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Original Licenses

An attempt is being made to sort games by their original licenses here: http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/License

The Games

"Re-licensed" (a version of the ruleset was explicitly edited/uploaded with an updated license)

"Dual-licensed" (explicit written permission to use an existing ruleset under an alternative license)