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minetest-mods / vehicle_mash

Cars, boats, and hovercrafts for Minetest
https://content.minetest.net/packages/Panquesito7/vehicle_mash/
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Consider replacing non-free car model #22

Open Wuzzy2 opened 7 months ago

Wuzzy2 commented 7 months ago

The car model is currently under the license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, which is a well-known non-free license that is incompatible with free software and open source standards.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CC-BY-NC https://opensource.org/licenses/common-reasons-for-rejection-of-licenses/

This makes it impossible to integrate this mod as-is into free software/open source games or mods. Without the car model, this mod makes little sense, after all.

It would be nice if this model could be replaced with something that is compatible with free software / open source standards. I would suggest using the CC BY-SA 4.0 license as this is still quite similar to the current license.

Alternatively, the original author of this model is asked to re-release this model under that license, or any other libre license (here's a list: https://freedomdefined.org/Licenses ).

Panquesito7 commented 7 months ago

Thank you for the suggestion. The author of the original model still seems to be around, so I could ask them to re-license under the license you mentioned. I was also planning to update the whole mod (I already have a full list of what I plan to do) and use free assets (or add new vehicles in case the model is re-licensed) in a few months.