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General overview

To host your project on TuxFamily, a free license is required. You can choose between:

  • GPL for code (or BSD if you prefer)
  • CC-BY-SA or the Art Libre License for artworks such as drawing, pictures, movies, music...
  • GPL and Art Libre license are fine for artworks created with Blender or Inkscape (or any other libre software to edit images, videos, music...) as they incite to provide the original source rather than only having a png file or a video that cannot easily be modified. It permits easily to include them in libre games under GPL as it keeps a good of homogeneity.

We do accept other open licenses, feel free to join our irc channel if you have questions about a specific license.

In any case, you have to choose the license at the very beginning of your project! It is quite hard to change a license once your project is started, because you have to make sure that each contributor agrees with the new license chosen.

You can look at these links for information about the GNU GPL license:

Other links:

Why a free license?

Some reasons to choose a free (as in speech) license (this list is non-exhaustive!)

A example of a non-free license: Creative Commons Non-commercial / non-derivative (either one, or combined) Let's use the example of a film by a organization licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND-SA license. They might have licensed it under the NC-ND combinations because they were worried that they wouldn't be able to say anything about the use of their film. However, this is not true.

As such, if you put a film, for example, under the NC license, other people won't be able to:

  • sell your film on a CD without your permission
  • sell advertising space related to your film without your permission
  • put your film on TV or websites with commercials
  • use your film in a LAN party that requires people to pay (as they would be essentially selling the film)
  • etc