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unoodles
June 6th, 2008, 07:54 PM
First of all I would like to apologize to the Mod's if this is not the right category.

Ok so I have started work on a game that will be written in Python using wxPython for the GUI. I know that I will license all code under the GPL v3. However I am unsure what I should license the game art under. I know that CC Share Alike is not considered "free". So my question: What license for media is considered most free?. Can art be under the GPL?

Phenax
June 6th, 2008, 08:02 PM
Artwork can be licensed under the GPL but it isn't 'easy to understand' when applied to artwork.

nvteighen
June 6th, 2008, 09:10 PM
First of all I would like to apologize to the Mod's if this is not the right category.

Ok so I have started work on a game that will be written in Python using wxPython for the GUI. I know that I will license all code under the GPL v3. However I am unsure what I should license the game art under. I know that CC Share Alike is not considered "free". So my question: What license for media is considered most free?. Can art be under the GPL?

CC-Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 is considered free by the Free Software Foundation. Take a look: at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OtherLicenses

Anything that gives copyright to the author can be GPL-ed. The problem is how to interpret the License's definitions in a way that fits properly with that work.

But maybe program artwork could be considered part of the program's source code, so it falls under the same copying terms as the rest? You're delivering those images to work with the program, so I believe it's safe enough to do it.

I'm not a lawyer, but that's what I would do.

unoodles
June 11th, 2008, 06:54 PM
Thanks! I think I am going to go with the Free Art License (http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/) I found the link on the site you gave me. Thanks again!