Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Licensing Decision

Today, I thought long and hard about the HiBRiD licensing. The decision comes down to the following questions:

What do I want to accomplish in publishing this game? Am I doing this to make boatloads of money? Will I have regrets if someone gets rich off of my idea?  So far I am considering this license:

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Human Readable Version:

This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the license.
Disclaimer

You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow these terms:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

It is open source but still ensures credit is given to those who contribute.

Whatya think?

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