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5 years ago Hello, hope all is well over there.
I am the man who started developing of this game and wrote most of it's code (includes all the code written prior to version 0.2.0) and created all initial placeholders for assets used in this game.
All sounds used in this game were found on freesound.org. I was choosing them personally. Unfortunately at that time we weren't maintaining any licensing documentation so there was not place where I could write down authors. Actually CONTRIBUTORS and LICENSE files were created after work on the game was finished.
Regarding music, indeed, it was all provided by a man having nickname Титановые Яйца. He has not provided his real name but he gave us the explicit permission to publish the music under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
Graphics was provided by different people. Most textures were created from scratch. If I remember it correctly, kleinepanzer did most of texture work. We took some free models (the spider, the zombie, the running man) and made sprites out of them. I am pretty sure licenses of these models were CC0. Regarding the model of Violet - a man, I don't remember his name, gave us the explicit permission to use his model to create sprites and scenes with her and use it under CC0 license.
If there is a necessity I can look through my digital archive for any additional information regarding these resources and it's history, although I would not like to do it since it can take significant amount of time.
The only things that are actually not free at all are fonts. I haven't managed to find suitable free fonts and haven't contacted authors of used fonts.
Feel free to contact me if I can be of further assistance.
Best regards, Nikita Makarov
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 9:58 PM OpenSourceGames notifications@github.com wrote:
I was watching a cartoon and noticed a scream sound that reminded me of the high quality screams in Violetland. This made me worry: is that cartoon using -BY sounds (possibly without attribution) or even -BY-SA sounds without copylefting? Or is violetland possibly using sounds from a proprietary library?
Of course it is also possible that both use cc0/public domain sounds.
I remember hearing violetland's screams on freesound but can't find them again (I might be imagining this).
violetland's sounds (for quick listening): https://clyp.it/pe5vcagw cartoon: https://streamable.com/rp2il (Mighty Magiswords S2E36 "Ghosthaste")
This made me check the license and author information in the Violetland project and I realized Violetland uses CC-BY-SA 3.0 https://github.com/ooxi/violetland/blob/master/LICENSE.ASSETS but is not clear about who is the author of which asset.
There are some credits in https://github.com/ooxi/violetland/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md but for example V.M. is the only one attributed with sound effects with the comment "sound optimizations" but it's not clear who made (owns the copyright) on the sounds.
I noticed the fonts (easy to google) might not be CC-BY-SA 3.0 or compatible: https://www.dafont.com/harabara-mais.font
Note of the author Font Demo available only on the website Dafont. No other site is authorized to distribute this font. This source is not free for commercial use. For full font and commercial use license, please contact the author.
More info send email to: harabarafont@gmail.com
https://www.wfonts.com/font/archangelsk
Free font Podobin can be contacted at: 8921-486-98-14 http://www.podobin.atnet.ru (dead URL)
Or kleinepanzer and bOHeLi are attributed to graphics but it's unclear who made which graphics
Титановые Яйца might be the only clear attribution, assuming they made all the music and are cool with CC-BY-SA 3.0
Or maybe the copyright holder is something like "The Violetland Team"
My worry about use of proprietary assets is that other open source projects might re-use content and falsely spread non-free assets under free licenses.
Is there any way to get more insight on the origin of assets that are part of Violetland?
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I was watching a cartoon and noticed a scream sound that reminded me of the high quality screams in Violetland. This made me worry: is that cartoon using -BY sounds (possibly without attribution) or even -BY-SA sounds without copylefting? Or is violetland possibly using sounds from a proprietary library?
Of course it is also possible that both use cc0/public domain sounds.
I remember hearing violetland's screams on freesound but can't find them again (I might be imagining this).
violetland's sounds (for quick listening): https://clyp.it/pe5vcagw cartoon: https://streamable.com/rp2il (Mighty Magiswords S2E36 "Ghosthaste")
This made me check the license and author information in the Violetland project and I realized Violetland uses CC-BY-SA 3.0 https://github.com/ooxi/violetland/blob/master/LICENSE.ASSETS but is not clear about who is the author of which asset.
There are some credits in https://github.com/ooxi/violetland/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md but for example V.M. is the only one attributed with sound effects with the comment "sound optimizations" but it's not clear who made (owns the copyright) on the sounds.
I noticed the fonts (easy to google) might not be CC-BY-SA 3.0 or compatible: https://www.dafont.com/harabara-mais.font
https://www.wfonts.com/font/archangelsk
Or kleinepanzer and bOHeLi are attributed to graphics but it's unclear who made which graphics
Титановые Яйца might be the only clear attribution, assuming they made all the music and are cool with CC-BY-SA 3.0
Or maybe the copyright holder is something like "The Violetland Team"
My worry about use of proprietary assets is that other open source projects might re-use content and falsely spread non-free assets under free licenses.
Is there any way to get more insight on the origin of assets that are part of Violetland?