mod licenses

[Arisaya]

Thanks george ^^
So by code, that would only cover verbatim code duplicate sections?

[george moromisato]

Thanks george ^^
So by code, that would only cover verbatim code duplicate sections?

That's right. You are free to re-write your own functions, even if based on Transcendence functions, as long as they look sufficiently different.

[If you copy the code verbatim, then you're still free to use it, but then the copied piece of code falls under my copyright and you have to honor the terms of the licence: attribution, non-commercial, etc.]

In practice this is not going to be a problem.

[Ttech]

My view of mods is as follows:

1. Unless otherwise specified, mod authors own the copyright to their own mods.
2. A mod may use copyrighted elements from Transcendence itself (such as images, code, etc.) but those elements remain under my copyright. [The license for using those copyrighted elements is what you would expect: you have non-exclusive rights to use those elements for non-commercial purposes, and you have to maintain my copyright and trademark rights.]
3. I claim no rights to incorporate any mod or any portion of a mod into Transcendence itself without permission from the author. [Note, however, that ideas cannot be copyrighted. An idea itself, no matter how complicated, is fair game and can be used by anyone including me for any purpose without permission.]

Note that the above is not a formal license, nor is it legal advice.

At some point I will include a more formal license spelling this out in the game itself.

Could you elaborate on your license for the game XML and such?