Goonhub
08-23-2016, 05:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-23-2016, 06:01 PM by atomic1fire. Edited 4 times in total.)
(08-23-2016, 05:33 PM)Noah Buttes Wrote:(08-23-2016, 05:30 PM)misto Wrote: it is not that bad, ask permission from the sprite makers, some of them might be happy to share them. but that argument is for another place in my opinion.
I'm also not sure how well that would work with the license that goon uses.
I dunno how that stuff works.
I think TG sprites are under a Creative Commons Attribution Share alike license.
Meaning that if you edit those sprites at all, your sprites have to be under the same license, and you have to give credit to tgstation where it's due.
Basically I assume in order to use TG sprites, goonstation would probably have to say that those sprites are https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ licensed sprites, and the TG coders might expect goonmins to release other sprites under the same license. Some people might even demand that goon use an AGPL license if any code is used at all.
You might be able to just throw all existing goon sprites in a zip file, say "It's SA 3.0 licensed, go nuts" and be totally covered, but it feels like one of those things that would just be a pain in the neck to keep track of. That or a ginormous PNG file generated by a script that just adds sprites and makes itself bigger as more sprites are added to the codebase.
I wouldn't mind if goon used an AGPL license, but I feel like it would cause goon to lose some magic if there's no level of secrecy unless there's some procedurally generated shenanigans.