[Sc2-devel] Candidate for Media License

[Chris N. <ch...@to...>]

Currently, the art and music for UQM is distributed under a license
that's less free than we desire.

The reason for this is that we wanted to ensure that, once we choose the
final license, it won't allow for other companies to incorporate any
part of UQM (be it the source code, or the media) into their games,
without allowing for these games to be Open and Free (in general terms).

TFB is currently reviewing a license which we believe might fit our
criteria:

The Free Art License.

One hypothetical situation I believe it doesn't prevent is the use of an
UQM character in an unrelated commercial. Although we'd just as soon not
allow this, it seems like quite an improbable scenario. If it actually
occured, we'd probably be more amused and preplexed than anything else.

We'd also like to hear your opinions on this license, and whether you
believe it will allow for sufficient freedom to use the art in fan
works, such as clones.

Also, if there's a different license which you believe would work
better, post a link, and say why you think we should use it instead, and
we'll check it out.

-- 
Chris Nelson <ch...@to...>
TFB