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Vega Strike Upon The Coldest Sea Original Game Data Art Sources (e.g. hi-poly/hi-res source models/images)
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Relicense VS:UtCS under GPLv3+ ? #34

Open stephengtuggy opened 2 years ago

stephengtuggy commented 2 years ago

See also https://github.com/vegastrike/Vega-Strike-Engine-Source/issues/548

stephengtuggy commented 2 years ago

I believe that the VS:UtCS assets are currently under GPLv2+, for the most part, with some exceptions e.g. for the music. Not sure how many of the text-format files actually list a copyleft notice at the top, though. We may need to add that in a bunch of places.

klaussfreire commented 2 years ago

Tracking all authors can take a while. For my part, I would have no problem relicensing under GPLv3+

Music, however, I think is mostly some form of CC. Licensing music in GPLv3 would require distributing sources, which we don't have.

stephengtuggy commented 2 years ago

@klaussfreire Makes sense. So I guess we can leave the music under its current license(s), excluding them from any changes we make to other parts of the project.

BenjamenMeyer commented 2 years ago

@stephengtuggy Artwork will likely fall into the same issue as music is my guess.

@klaussfreire I'm not saying we need to track the authors down; but as a first step we need to review to see if we do.

We should also make the licensing clearer using the different licenses as appropriate: