Licensing a game
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 16:33
Hello,
dunno if it is the right section of the forum for this kind of question, but here goes nothing:
cc by-sa licensed works can be used in a commercial game?
if not what other license type, a commercial game in the making, could use ? ( besides the CC-xx-NC-xx)
Thanks!
All licenses used on OGA can be used in a commercial game:
OGA-BY, CC-BY, and CC-BY SA require you to prominently give credit to the artist in you game.
Some licenses (GPL) may require the game's code also fall under the same license, but it can still be a commercial game. Artists can ask for attribution with GPL, but they don't always require it.
Any art you make from or mix with CC-BY SA art must also be CC-BY SA and you must give credit to the original artist (as well as yourself if you want). Some people feel like using CC-BY SA art also requires the game's code to be CC-BY SA, but game code is rarely considered a derivative of artwork. Basically, it depends on how your game is set up. Ultimately, it's best to ask the artist if you're not sure when it comes to CC-BY SA.
See https://opengameart.org/content/faq#q-proprietary for more information.
--Medicine Stormty for your time!
I will try to contact the artists and ask them.
It is a 2D top down game, I am not mixing or anything, I am just using the art as tiles / sprites/ static meshes.
I am already making a credits section, I worked solo on this project and I am not good with graphics, I only managed to make the main character and the menu buttons by myself :))