What's your favorite license for Code and for assets, I'm checking options for some future projects

[nullthefool@mastodon.gamedev.place]

What's your favorite license for Code and for assets, I'm checking options for some future projects

[vantablack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@NullTheFool I should probably look more at licenses. I just put a README on my stuff that says if you use in a project please credit me.

[mmby@mastodon.social]

@NullTheFool https://aria.dog/barks/forklift-certified-license/

I haven't used this but I find it smart and hilarious to make the license text itself toxic to large company lawyers

(I know that won't do much but still)

[nullthefool@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mmby Now I'm curious

[bytex64@awesome.garden]

@NullTheFool What’s your intent?

As an aside, I have taken a liking to legally ambiguous or parody licenses that corporations won’t touch with a ten foot pole (see https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses). But that’s probably not what you’re looking for. :)

[nullthefool@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@bytex64 In the assets realm just making free assets for people to use.

In the open source one, having more options outside of classic GPL, MIT, BSD, etc

[bytex64@awesome.garden]

@NullTheFool For free assets I’d just use one of the Creative Commons licenses. They offer a lot of options.

For code, I guess the question is permissive or copyleft? For a less common permissive license, there’s Apache. It’s like MIT/BSD but requires a more clarity on modifications and patents. Or for kind of an oddball, there’s the Artistic License 2.0, which has broad relicensing compatibility with GPL or similar copyleft licenses but different requirements on distribution.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@NullTheFool i use Apache 2 for code because it is a permissive license that makes it clear that any contributions to the project are made available under the same license by default, thus avoiding the need to make contributors put it in writing.

for media, usually i pick whichever of CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA best fits my intent for a given project.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@NullTheFool i don't bother with the NC or ND variants, because they mostly just make trouble for regular well intended community members, CC-BY-SA is sufficient to discourage big corporations, and scammers aren't going to abide by the license anyway

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@aeva @NullTheFool NC is a cute prototype