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Question about licence #1

Closed MihailTrajkovski closed 5 years ago

MihailTrajkovski commented 5 years ago

Hello,

So I am interested in what Apex Utility AI offers but I've got an licensing issue. Basically LGPL licence is a total mystery to me, mainly because as I've read about it it mentions wrappers dinamically linked stuff etc which I don't really understand honestly. So basically: What would I need to put in the final release of my game? What would I need to do in order to not release the source of my game(if I download it from the asset store)?

Thank you for your answer in advance.

Geminior commented 5 years ago

Hi,

The only thing you are not allowed to do is to package and resell Apex AI or directly derivative work. If you make changes to Apex AI you must make those changes available for others to use as well, e.g. by creating a fork or contributing to someone else's fork.

There are no restrictions on using Apex AI in a game. You are not required to publish your game's source code. The whole reason we made it open source was to allow game devs to use it and at the same time enable them to share any improvements they might make to the original.

I hope that answers your question.

Best Regards Thomas Scheelhardt

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So I am interested in what Apex Utility AI offers but I've got an licensing issue. Basically LGPL licence is a total mystery to me, mainly because as I've read about it it mentions wrappers dinamically linked stuff etc which I don't really understand honestly. So basically: What would I need to put in the final release of my game? What would I need to do in order to not release the source of my game(if I download it from the asset store)?

Thank you for your answer in advance.

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MihailTrajkovski commented 5 years ago

That's great, thank you for your quick answer. Licenses are always tricky(for me at least) so better to ask than to be sorry.