What stuff can we use? (licences)

[SteveL]

I'm having trouble finding a forum post or wiki article with any guidance for what resources we can import into missions. Does anyone have a link?

 

Can I use a CC-BY-SA resource in my map? I won't be modifying it, so won't trigger the licence restriction on derivative works.

Edited December 14, 2013 by SteveL

[nbohr1more]

Yes. As long as you aren't packaging the whole asset base with your map, you should be fine. Technically the map itself is just geometry descriptors so you could even violate the license and sell your mission (etc) with the understanding that if players don't want to possibly break license terms themselves they will need to get replacement assets "elsewhere". Though I think we'd prefer that authors don't go that route and risk ensnaring the project in any litigation due to false associations with mapper projects. Demagogue can probably speak to this in more depth. The short answer: anything in TDM's asset base is there for mappers to use for Dark Mod missions. Anything beyond that, read the license terms and CYA.

[SteveL]

Thanks, that's good news, and no worries I'm only looking for sounds and textures that might be nice to use in freely shared missions, perfectly in keeping with the letter and spirit of the CC licence. It's just that when I was looking for posts about free resources I saw people discussing whether this-and-that license was compatible with TDM's license and wondered if there were rules/guidelines I needed know about (but couldn't track down).