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The files distributed with UFO:AI are either licensed under the "GNU General Public License v2.0" (GNU GPL2) or under the "GNU Free Documentation License" (GNU FDL; used for documentation). It is preferred to license also under the "or later" clause for GPL.

Some files (especially content like graphics) may have their own license, but this must be stated in the same directory in a license.txt file and the license must be compatible with the GNU GPL v2. A common License is the "Creative Commons License by-sa" (which is not compatible with GNU GPL, unfortunately --Bandobras 14:27, 22 August 2007 (CEST), BTW, GNU FDL is probably also not compatible with GNU GPL, so it may be wise to ask people contributing to the wiki to dual license their contribution under both GPL and FDL, so that we can move stuff from the wiki to code/scripts/art and not only to a separate manual).

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List of Licenses

GNU General Public License v2.0 - "GPL2" for short (mainly code & art-content)

GNU Free Documentation License - "GNU FDL" for short(documentation)

Creative Commons License 3.0 Attribution-ShareAlike - "CC-BY-SA" for short (artwork)

Note: Please try to not use the "NonCommercial" (NC) part of the CC license. Sometimes it's not avoidable (existing stuff), but if you create something new I suggest the BY-SA version as listed above

Info for Distributors

Writeme

  • GPL2 FAQ especially the "Distribution of programs released under the GPL" section.

Info for Contributors

Few rules:

  • if you want to contribute the code, you have to be aware of the fact, that all of our code is released under GPL.
  • if you want to contribute artwork, you need to pick the proper license and give us the info about that as well as your name.
  • if you want to release your contribution under GPL, the best you can do is to provide readme.txt which contains both GPL disclaimer and your name. An example: 
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// Copyright (C) 2007    YOUR NAME HERE
//
//  This model is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
//  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
//  as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
//  of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
//
//  This model is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
//  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
//  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
//  GNU General Public License for more details.
//
//  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
//  along with the model ; if not, write to the Free Software
//  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
//  02111-1307, USA.
//
//
//
// DESCRIPTION: .blend sources of the model, MD2 model, .jpg texture skin and .xcf texture source
//
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  • if you prefer other licenses, we can accept several Creative Commons licenses; in fact, for the sound samples we prefer that you will release your contribution under Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License
  • other licenses accepted by us are: Creative Commons Attribution, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, and Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, but we gladly ask to not release under Attribution-NonCommercial or Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
  • in any case providing us with your name and license is absolutely needed - we will put that info to svn:copyright and svn:license properties in our repository

Derivative work

If you used models, sounds, textures or anything, taken from other people or other repositories, there are few additional rules:

  • we (UFO:AI) will accept your work only if you will use things released under proper licenses, namely: GPL, Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License, Creative Commons Attribution, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike or Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
  • in every case you MUST include additional info into your work (readme.txt preferred), that is: 1) license of the original stuff you used in your work 2) author(s) of the original stuff you used in your work 3) source of the original stuff you used in your work (http://link is acceptable)
  • you must save license compatibility; that means if you used sound samples released under Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License, your work also must be released under Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License
  • last but not least, if the source site with stuff you want to use says nothing about licensing, you cannot use that in contributions for UFO:AI - no license does not mean no copyrights

See also

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