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What kind of license for a new skin for OpenPLI on github?


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#1 MCelliotG

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Posted 20 October 2017 - 01:05

A little question! In a few days I'm releasing a brand new skin for OpenPLI based images I've been working hard on for more than a year now.
I started a github repo for it (and it will be updated from there), and since it has brand new self made graphics and skin code from scratch, I asked their advice on what license to use.
What I opt for is to prevent (in a realistic way, I know nothing can be really "prevented") people from redistributing their own mods regarding skin code and graphics without github pull requests and my permission.
They told me to use an GNU public license v3 and state what I allow or not in the header of the skin xml (which I did).
Since it will make its debut here, is that OK with you as well, or is it advisable to use another type of license? I'm new to github regarding my own projects.
Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

Re: What kind of license for a new skin for OpenPLI on github? #2 WanWizard

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Posted 20 October 2017 - 12:43

GPL requires people to publish their changes if they publish their end-result, but it doesn't require them to send those back to you. You have to go and get them.

 

You could look at Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/choose/ to see if there is a form that will suit you.


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Re: What kind of license for a new skin for OpenPLI on github? #3 MCelliotG

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Posted 20 October 2017 - 18:48

Thank you so very much! By my criteria I am advised to use a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license which GPLv3 is a part of. What I'd like to do is to restrict the redistribution to only the graphics and skin code. The python part of the skin is no problem at all, everything could be redistributed as noted.


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