Licensing Policy
PlayNow's game catalog is currently sourced entirely through a GamePix publisher agreement — a licensed, commercial arrangement, not open-source code we've copied. If PlayNow ever hosts original or open-source-derived code directly in the future, it will only accept the permissive licenses below.
Current Sourcing Model
Every game currently on PlayNow is embedded from GamePix's publisher network under their standard terms. GamePix — not PlayNow — owns and is responsible for this game code; PlayNow's role is limited to embedding and screening titles for brand/trademark conflicts before listing them.
Permitted Licenses for Any Directly-Hosted Code
Permissive license allowing commercial reuse, modification, distribution, and private use with copyright retention.
Permissive license providing explicit grant of patent rights and trademark preservation rules.
Permissive license requiring attribution without endorsement of derivative products using original author names.
Functionally equivalent to 2-clause BSD license with streamlined legal language.
Prohibited & Rejected Licenses
Copyleft licenses (GPL/AGPL) and unverified software origins are automatically rejected by our legal ingestion pipeline to protect commercial readiness.