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qubodup opened this issue May 11, 2010 · 4 comments
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qubodup opened this issue May 11, 2010 · 4 comments

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@qubodup
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qubodup commented May 11, 2010

Hello,

I was surprised to find a different adventure game on github. Now I wonder: what terms of use are attached to graphics (are these original? I can't tell.) and text?

I hope for GPL and CC-BY-SA.

Thanks

@codingisacopingstrategy
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Oh wow, I didn’t know anyone was going to be interested in this :-)

Yes, the graphics are original. I hadn’t decided on a licence yet, as I the logic seems to be both a program and a text… got me all philosophical :)

I know very little of the practice of releasing open source games. You are proposing to licence the graphics under GPL and the text under CC-BY-SA? Is that customary? As the graphics could of course be considered a creative work as well… I welcome your advice.

Oh and I will update the code soon. I found out this is a version I made for an exhibition, and an exit option is lacking. Also after period of inactivity some text starts looping.

cheers,

@qubodup
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qubodup commented May 12, 2010

There are many open source licenses. I was suggesting to license code under GPL and graphics under BY-SA, but when you say "text".. code and text are not separated..

I suppose I would recommend dual-licensing code/text, gfx and sound, since it's hard to separate them. Or just use GPL.

The BY-SA license has a 'stronger' attribution requirement (GPL only enforces a copyright notice, while BY-SA requires a 'real' credits-mentioning) but I still would recommend GPL for at least the source code part. Also the GPL is more strict regarding source: if you change the game and release it, you can't just release the binary, you will have to provide the source if users ask for it.

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GPL’ed

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qubodup commented Jul 9, 2010

Super! Thanks!

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