Ayutac

Developer who wants your help

Age 31
Male
Germany
Seen November 16th, 2015
Posted January 1st, 2015
157 posts
10.9 Years
Hello there! First off, I was wondering, if I should make a new thread or post my thoughts in the game thread but I was afraid my problem wouldn't be really noticed then. I also posted this thread in the LemmaSoft Forums since there are a lot of visual noveks, but I thought you guys could probably help as well, since here a lot of fan games are produced.

So up until now, that is, to version 1.0.4, the credits told which person was responsible for which part of the game, and at the end of it we had
© 2002-2013 Pokémon. © 1995-2013 Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc. TM, ® and Pokémon character names are trademarks of Nintendo. / © 1997-2013 TV Tokyo, ShoPro, JR Kikaku / © 1997-2013 Pikachu Records
I'm not sure where I got this line, but I thought everything would have been taken care of with it.
With version 2.0 (yes it's such a jump) I want to make it better, also because I want to change the project to open source. There will be a thin version of it too, stripped of all Pokemon content to serve as a Ren'Py Dating Sim Engine (DSE) as opposed to the Pokemon Dating Sim itself (PDS), so I'm interested in it too.

For PDS, I'll probably leave the line as it is (except for updating it to 2014) and make a different page explaining the copyright of the game. I already got some input from this thread regarding the images:
The act of tracing them as well as the little changes and added emotions is CC-BY-NC-SA, while the original images and characters are still Nintendo property (of course).
The music melodies are still Nintendo property.
The backgrounds don't have copyrights tied to them, so they are safe and will be published as public domain.
As I understood it, every game I created with Ren'Py has to be at least MIT licensed because of the libraries Ren'Py uses.
The dialog lines are some kind of fanfiction, so the fandom is of course Nintendo property, but the written stuff is also copyrighted nevertheless. Putting the Nintendo stuff aside, I would publish it under the MIT license too, since it's a little bit incorparated into the code.

So much for the parts, the game all together should go well with a MIT license, as I declare the Pokemon Parts as parody, right?

The DSE should go under a MIT license I think. I borrowed some characters and backgrounds from free ressources in the LemmaSoft forums and will credit them accordingly.

So what do you think?

PinkCatDragon

The 17 year old programer. Now byte off

Female
5cm meters from somthink with an IDE
Seen November 11th, 2017
Posted November 11th, 2017
388 posts
12.9 Years
Spoiler:
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.





i draw you attaition to
Spoiler:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

basicly you can sublicence it. but because it contains nintendo property you would need to choose a licence that is pardory/fair use compatable