Monitor feature

[zyxkad]

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• What is the new behavior (if this is a feature change)?

  • [Feature Request] Add Transparent or semi transparent Monitors Advanced-Peripherals-Features#6
  • [Feature Request] Add more interactive events on monitor and computer for players Advanced-Peripherals-Features#12

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[SquidDev]

Apologies for barging in here. I don't really like to do this, but I do think this is important. When copying code from another project, you need to follow the license that code is released under. Personally, I'm not normally fussed for small stuff, but this PR contains ~2k LoC copied from CC/CC:T.

In this case, it looks like the code has been copied from the 1.19.2 branch of CC:T, and so is licensed under the CCPL. The CCPL is a viral license, and requires that all projects using its code are also licensed under the CCPL.

I'd recommend instead taking as much code as possible from the 1.20.1 branch¹. More of the code there is licensed under the MPL 2.0 which, unlike the CCPL, is non-viral. However, some pretty significant components are still under the CCPL (text rendering, monitor BE). For those, you have several options:

• Ignore the license issues (please don't do this).
• Relicense the whole project under the CCPL (definitely don't do this).
• Ask Dan about relicensing the monitor code. I've heard he's more accessible these days, so might be worth a shot!
• Perform a clean-room implementation of this code.

Footnotes

1. I'd recommend doing that anyway, as there's lots of small bug fixes in it. For instance, TerminalState doesn't really need compression. ↩

[zyxkad]

@SquidDev Thanks for the LICENSE suggesting. (I'm not experience at it.) Just to confirm, if I paste the codes from 1.20.1 branch, which are under MIT license, is there no risk that will ask to change the LICENSE for all codes under AP? Also do I need to mention and keep the MIT license for those files that copied?

[SquidDev]

Yeah, software licensing is very confusing! I find Choose a License and TLDR;Legal both pretty useful resources for summarising what a license enables/prevents you from doing.

For the MPL 2.0 (I assume you meant this rather than MIT, CC:T does not use MIT), the main requirement is that code licensed under the MPL retains that license. So you just need to keep the copyright header intact.

[zyxkad]

Unfortunately a few files are still under CCPL (such as ServerMonitor), so I probably need rewrite some logics.

[zyxkad]

Unfortunately a few files are still under CCPL (such as ServerMonitor), so I probably need rewrite some logics.

Okay, I probably have to use mixins, hopefully that won't break things.

[zyxkad]

This PR is abandoned for two months, just to clarify, there are two problems need to solve.

1. The monitor will block other transparent texture behind it. We maybe should fix the shaders, but I do not know how to fix. :/
2. Most code is copy-pasted from CC:T under a strict license. The classes used final keyword to make extend impossible. So either waiting CC:T updated the relative files to its a less strict license or try work with mixin.

[SirEndii]

This PR is abandoned for two months, just to clarify, there are two problems need to solve.

1. The monitor will block other transparent texture behind it. We maybe should fix the shaders, but I do not know how to fix. :/

Transparent rendering is just pain in minecraft, it's a bit better in newer versions but still not nice to play with
I would just say that this is a bug which is currently at least for 1.19.2 unfixable

2. Most code is copy-pasted from CC:T under a strict license. The classes used final keyword to make extend impossible. So either waiting CC:T updated the relative files to its a less strict license or try work with mixin.

CC:T does not support 1.19.2 anymore and I hope I can drop support for 1.19.2 too when I finish everything for 0.8
So that will not happen. So I guess you try it using mixins, or we implement that feature in newer minecraft versions after I ported 0.8 to these versions