Which licenses require attribution by name?
Sunday, August 12, 2018 - 00:59
Hey there. I've been working on a ton of assets to share on here, but I'm totally new to submitting. Could anyone please tell me which licenses require the user to credit me by name? Thanks. :D
Cc-BY 3.0
CC-BY 4.0
OGA-BY 3.0
CC-BY licenses contain a provision barring distribution on platforms using certain types of DRM (eg Playstation, Xbox, etc).
OGA-BY 3.0 is cc-by 3.0 with this restriction removed.
https://withthelove.itch.io/
CC-BY-SA 3.0 and 4.0 as well.
GPL requires attribution it if the author asks for it, but the author doesn't have to ask for it.
--Medicine StormThank you guys. :D Now I know which ones to read.
So do the more licenses I select mean that the artist has more flexibility? For example if I selected both the CC-BY licenses with the OGA license removing that platform restriction, are they still able to release on XBox, etc?
Late response, but yes; more licenses selected = more flexibility. Typically more flexibility on the asset user's side. The user need only adhere to the terms of one of the licenses selected, not all of them at once. So if you have both CC-BY and OGA-BY selected, a user could choose to adhere to the OGA-BY license and not the CC-BY. This gives them the freedom to release their game (using your art) on XBox or the Apple App store (which impose DRM restrictions) while still being required to attribute you for your work and sharing the assets themselves under the same license.
--Medicine StormI did use CC-BY license before, but I had people asking me how to attribute and when and since it being unclear for many people I decided to release under CC0 only, a large part of people are probably so nice and will put you into the credits anyway. Even commercial products credit the content they used, even though they do not have to.