I just wanted to thank you for using CC0 rather than some home-made "don't redistribute or resell" license.
It means I can add it to my list of art assets which wouldn't be a blocker to getting any resulting open-source game into Linux package repositories.
(Up until now, I've focused on writing utilities, but I collect assets because, if I can find time, I've always wanted to experiment with things like better procedural level generation.)
Hi Stephan!
Yeah, CC0 is such a no-brainer to me to attach to anything provided for a free; I sorta don't understand why anyone would have anything more restrictive (I mean + usual no warranty for code - MIT or similar, but it's a technicality).
As for "don't redistribute or resell"... I don't see it as a harm directed at me, although it's a d***ish move towards the buyer, I guess. Would a license stop such a person though? Why and how would I even chase the guy. CC0 makes it so much easier to use. Alternative gives me nothing, doesn't prevent abuse, doesn't help the third parties in any way.
Just my thoughts : )
So yeah, more open-source please, and good luck with your procedural levels (it's a rabbit hole, I know, I've been there!)
Makes sense. When I'm feeling in a "do not steal" mood, I use GPL for my code because it's the corporate actors I care about abusing my good will but, otherwise, I just go for MIT because it's a minimal "leave the attribution intact" license and my main goal is to lift the baseline for everyone.
As for the levels, let's just hope my brain doesn't stymie me too much. I tend to bounce back and forth between my hobby projects unpredictably. (eg. I've got an in-progress project I poke at periodically which is going to be an InnoSetup/NSIS-like installer builder for DOS retro-enthusiasts but, lately, I've been focusing on preparing to push to GitHub a GUI and guide for feeding manga into Tesseract OCR and getting high-quality output from Google Translate.)
