Explanation of the licenses allowed on OpenGameArt.org

Submitted by bart on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 12:31
GPL 2, GPL 3, and CC-BY-SA 3.0 (in brief)
These licenses allow you to use the licensed content freely, but you must distribute the entire work under a license that requires the content to be shared freely.
LGPL 2 and LGPL 3
These licenses allow you to use the licensed content freely, provided that you distribute that content, and all modifications thereof, under the same license. The LGPL does not require you license the rest of the project in any particular way; hence, you can include LGPLed content in commercial and closed-source projects without having to release them as Open Source.
CC-BY 3.0 (in brief)
This license allows you to use the licensed content in any way, provided you attribute the author in the way specified by the license. You are not required to share modifications you make.
CC0 (in brief)
This license is functionally equivalent to the Public Domain, in that the author waives all rights to the published content. You may do anything with this content with no conditions, including re-licensing it any way you please.

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