dsallen7
License?
Hi,
Does the project has an open source license allowing sharing and mofication like GPL, MIT, BSD, ... or is it more like "all rights reserved"? If it isn't licensed like this, is such a step planned in the future?
I could not find specific information about the license status in the code or in the issues but the project looks promising.
Thanks and kind regards.
Hi,
Sorry I missed your question earlier. This project (ransack-python) has been inactive for a while. I've actually decided to re-do the project from the ground up in Java, so that's what I'm working on these days. That project I am planning on eventually releasing on Android, iOS, and Steam, so that will probably be all rights reserved. As for ransack-python however, I'm not doing anything with it anymore, so I would be happy to open it up for sharing and modification. I haven't considered which license to use, but I will try to get around to that and updating the repo to reflect that.
I can't provide any support for the ransack-python project right now, and to be honest it is not very well documented and probably has many defects. But you can certainly start sharing and modifying it if you want. None of the code and probably none of the assets/artwork will be carried forward to the new project. The only thing I am going to reserve will probably be the name "Ransack" as that is the title of my new project. If you have any tips on licenses, which one to choose, etc. do let me know as I am still new to this. Thanks for your interest.
Thanks for the reply and thanks for the offer to make ransack-python freely available. There are currently two major open source licenses which I would recommend to you:
GPL license if you want that others must open their source too (effectively limits any commercial use)
MIT license if you want to basically permit everything, the only condition is that a copyright line must be conserved
(BSD or Apache 2 are also popular and similar to MIT but not as short)
For assets/artwork I would choose a suitable CC (Creative commons) license. Just choose one that you like.
It would be great if you could add a few lines in the readme detailing which license to use for the code and which for the artwork and also a copy of the license for the code in a file like license.txt or so. Also add to the README that any derivative work must not use the name "ransack" within the game.
That would be all to make it a nice project worth to be shared and modified. However, I cannot promise, I can do much (or anything) with it. Just that I would like to have the possibility if it's possible.
There hasn't been any activity in this repository in the mean time. Is addind an open source license still intended?
Hi, sorry for the long delay. I have added a MIT license to this project. I considered the GPL but decided to go with the less restrictive MIT. Additionally there is a CC 4.0 Attribution to cover the artwork assets. There are a few items (TTF fonts) which are not covered. It's all explained in the readme.
This should cover everything, so feel free to begin working with it as you like.