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Brianetta · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: Licensing

Just after some clarification. I'm under the impression that Oolite is now GPL, but the artwork (including models, textures and music) is under a CC license that prohibits commercial distribution and derivatives. Is this generally the case? If one were to take full advantage of the additional freedoms under the GPL to box up and sell the product for profit, would alternative artwork need to be created? Basically, does the GPL only cover the engine?
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Ahruman · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject:

The artwork is dual-licensed under the GPL and the Creative Commons by-nc-sa license. This means you may use it under either license.
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Dr. Nil · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:22 am Post subject:

Could someone cut through the legal lingo and tell me what we cannot do with what instead of what we can do. Wink

Not that I have any plans of doing anything, I'd just like to know.

[Wonders how confusing the laws would be if they told us what we were allowed to do and we then had to infer from that what was illegal.]
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Dr. Nil · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:32 am Post subject:

I'm curious, that's all.

No one would force you to read the answer. Wink

(Off topic comment Removed by moderator)
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Ahruman · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:52 am Post subject:

For Creative Commons licenses, you can get a nice, neat summary in the form of Creative Commons Deeds (which I linked to in the announcement post):

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Deed, for resources (i.e., non-source code files).
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Deed, for previous releases (back to and including 1.39).

There is no official equivalent for the GPL, which is a more complicated license with a big baggage of politics. However, the Creative Commons project has a similar Deed summarising the GPL.

The general intent of all the licenses used for Oolite now and in the past is that you may modify it, in whole or in part, as long as you don’t claim to have created it; however, you must distribute any modifications you make under the same terms. As of the transition to the GPL, you may also sell it (but not attempt to restrict your customers from redistributing it) – although Messrs. B&B may have ideas about that.

Expressing licenses in terms of what you can do without touching on what you can’t do is inherently intractable, because managing restrictions on what you’re permitted to do is what licensing is all about.
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Dr. Nil · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject:

Rxke · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject:

I weeded out +everything+ offtopic here.

Keep it civil, guys. Please. Rolling Eyes

ramon · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject:

spoil sport Laughing

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Ahruman · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject: Re: Licensing

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Ahruman · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: Re: Licensing

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Ahruman · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject:

Yes. Technically the data for 1.65 is tripple-licensed, since CC-by-nc-sa 2.0 and CC-by-nc-sa 3.0 are different licenses, but it may be distributed in its entirety under the GPL.
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