License

From Post-Apocalyptic RPG wiki

All (C/C++/Python) code is licensed under the GNU General Public License 3.

All assets (not the code) are licensed either under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 or the General Public License 3 but preferably dual-licensed under both. Alternatively assets can be licensed under 'compatible' licenses, that allow re-licensing under gpl 3.0 or by-sa 3.0.

This license choice was discussed in this thread.

License characteristics

Both the GNU General Public License 3 and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licenses have the following characteristics:

• They require attribution

By requiring attribution we can ensure that users of assets need to actually give us proper credit if they use our assets. The GPL has an attribution requirement in form of required copyright notices.

• They are copyleft/share-alike

By licensing our assets under copyleft/share-alike terms users of our assets are required to grant their users the same rights that we have granted them. E.g. they would need to grant their users the right to modify the assets and share them in case we allow modifications to the assets.

• They permit commercial usage (but not proprietary usage)

By allowing commercial usage, strict GNU/Linux-distributions can include PARPG on physical mediums. Commercial exploitation is unlikely as we actually license the content under attribution and share-alike clause. This way everyone who uses the content would have to give us proper credit and grant their users that same rights as we granted the users of our content. So if anyone would try to make money with the assets, everyone who bought them would be legally allowed to freely redistribute the copyleft/share-alike ones.