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LPC Universal Sprite - Commercial use for game development?

Kunalz
Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - 04:18

Hi there,

 

The whole licensing thing is very confusing to me so I was hoping someone could clarify it for me.

1- I want to use LPC Universal Sprite in my game development, is this allowed?

2- What if I use the LPC Universal Sprite as a reference to create my own 2D sprites, it may look a little similar but I would modify it and add extra things to it, what will it mean then? Will it still belong to them or be counted as a new artwork? 

3- If it is allowed to be used, I read that I have to make my whole game project as open source work that anyone can access? (that's a little too much). Does it mean just the artwork stuff I changed/used or even things that don't even belong to them like scripts, etc.

 

Thanks, I know there are places I can go to read but I already done it, and a lot of licenses have many similarities between them and its just overall confusing to understand so I hope what I'm trying to do will make it clear on how I should use it.

 

 

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MedicineStorm
joined 7 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - 14:57
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  1. I want to use LPC Universal Sprite in my game development, is this allowed? Yes. Credit all contributors & share derivatives under the same license and you're all good. :)
  2. What if I use the LPC Universal Sprite as a reference to create my own 2D sprites, it may look a little similar but I would modify it and add extra things to it, what will it mean then? your own 2D sprites will be derivatives. Will it still belong to them or be counted as a new artwork? It will belong to both the original artists and all subsequent contributors, including yourself. It won't be "new" artwork, it will be "derivative" artwork.
  3. If it is allowed to be used, I read that I have to make my whole game project as open source work that anyone can access? Not really. Only artwork derived from LPC art is subject to the Share Alike clause.  Does it mean just the artwork stuff I changed/used or even things that don't even belong to them like scripts, etc. Generally, only ARTWORK you've made with the LPC art would be derivative of it. How would you even derive scripts from graphical artwork? If you took an LPC sprite, made it into a different sprite, that new sprite would need to be released under the same license as the original (be sure to give credit in your game to all the artists that made the original sprite. You can credit yourself as well, since you also contributed to the new sprite.) 

--Medicine Storm

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Kunalz
joined 4 months 4 weeks ago
Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - 08:48

Thanks man

 

That was a good explanation. Will deintely keep that in mind, would be nice to hear from other people as well just to be safe.

I appreciate your input!

 

Kunz

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bluecarrot16
joined 5 years 1 month ago
Thursday, July 18, 2019 - 09:14

MedicineStorm is correct; this is addressed on the site FAQ as well https://opengameart.org/content/faq#q-proprietary . 

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