Patch: Docile NPCs

(if I were trying to make something like this, I'd probably have tried to make a 1-tile buffer around the player where NPCs would never walk, which probably wouldn't have worked)

SocialDistancing.ips 

Do you want all directories that use your patch to include your readme, or was the statement just for mirrors?

Condition #1 in the permissions notice is only intended for pure redistribution, i.e. mirrors.

Condition #2 has two implications:

• Credit the author of this patch in your own hack's readme -- nothing fancy required.
  

• Stipulate in your own hack's permissions notice that the same credit accompany any derivative works which retain the patch -- probably a good thing to include anyway; can be worded generally to cover all secondary contributors of your hack. (See ex. FF6:ROSE's permissions notice, which is explicitly recursive.)
  

All of my smaller patches have permissions similar to this one, and hopefully this fits well with what the FF6 hacking community is already accustomed to doing.
The copyright notice and attempted legalese can seem a bit over the top, especially since I have yet to see anyone in this community acting in bad faith when it comes to giving credit.
But it is aimed at ensuring credits don't get "lost in transit" (especially when we have hacks based on hacks based on multiple patches) -- without resorting to something more burdensome like GPL.

Thanks for making a point of staying above board!