search

friggog / tree-gen

Procedural generation of tree models in blender
GNU General Public License v3.0
827 stars 74 forks source link

license of generated trees #34

Closed malytomas closed 5 years ago

malytomas commented 5 years ago

Hi, I would like to ask you, If I were to use this plugin to generate some trees, how would those trees themselves be governed in relation to the GPL license? I do not wish to make any of the work in which the trees are used as GPL too. I am no lawyer and I find GPL extremely difficult to understand. Thanks

samipfjo commented 5 years ago

Licenses normally refer to the codebase itself rather than the output thereof unless otherwise specified. For example, you don't have to GPL license your software if you use an RSA keypair generated by OpenSSL.

With that said, this is purely at the discretion of @friggog. Just wanted to clarify the way licensing typically works to alleviate whatever confusion I can.

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 9:18 AM Tomáš Malý notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi, I would like to ask you, If I were to use this plugin to generate some trees, how would those trees themselves be governed in relation to the GPL license? I do not wish to make any of the work in which the trees are used as GPL too. I am no lawyer and I find GPL extremely difficult to understand. Thanks

— You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/friggog/tree-gen/issues/34?email_source=notifications&email_token=ABQGAD3KA5T7CNZNWPV345LP7CVGTA5CNFSM4ICM4RUKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFUVEXG43VMWVGG33NNVSW45C7NFSM4G65NXFQ, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABQGAD7KPDZGEH6NRA5OQX3P7CVGTANCNFSM4ICM4RUA .

friggog commented 5 years ago

Yeah I intended the GPL to cover only derivative works of the plugin (ie any modifications must be open source). Trees generated with the plugin are free to be used in any project. I’d rather people didn’t just generate trees and sell them as assets, but there would be work in preparing the generated model to that quality so it’s fair anyway. Think of it in the same way as photoshop (licensed) or blender (open source) ;)

I’ll update the readme at some point to reflect this.

malytomas commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the clarification :D