Can we add the AGPL to the supported licences
Saturday, May 23, 2020 - 20:51
It seems off that you support GPL but not the AGPL. It seems to be the standard for open source avatars for online worlds being used by the Ruth 2.0 project.
I finally got the base avatar for my MMO but I can't find anywhere to share it as it's AGPL.
GPL (and AGPL) is a software license. The only reason it is accepted here for artwork is for legacy reasons; projects back in the day wanted to share artwork, but no artwork licenses existed at the time, so GPL was used as the best available option.
AGPL is a software + application service license. Accessing artwork over a service "but not distributing it" doesn't really apply any more than GPL does.
We can look into it, but it is more likely GPL will be discontinued for new submissions than it is AGPL will be added to the list. :/
--Medicine StormBut with the (A)GPL you have to provide it in "the preferred form for editing" you can't just bake(for 3D) or flatten(for 2D) it down then only distribute that. For example if Sentiel was GPLed then you would have to offer the .blends to everyone you distributed the movie to.
This has been discussed several times before. For more background, please read through the following thread: https://opengameart.org/forumtopic/source-required-for-art-licensed-unde...
Unless the topic is wholly separate, additions to the discussion should probably be made to that thread instead of this one just to keep the conversation in one place. :)
--Medicine Storm