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Ali-G wrote:

[17:40] <Alige> V0id: Since the dual license works, I think we're good with the acorn! I'll ask Reidy what she thinks about it and if we can introduce it in Evol Online. If you're against having your named being written in the "LICENSE" file, please tell us. If not, then we're the 2 designers of this piece of art!
[17:41] <V0id> Alige: everything's fine for me

@meway: V0id and I are okay with the dual license, because it can work fine. Now please, mind your own business.

--Alige

Anything added to the game is the development teams business whether it comes to Discussions on Graphics or discussion to content. Its sad this team doesn't act like a team most times and makes stupid comments to each other like "go away" or "mind your own business"...which is not productive at all. Infact i think it prevents people from even wanting to join the team which is real sad on our part due to poor representation of how we treat each other(there is a few people that play tmw that can contribute but dont due to this i dont think i need to name them they are well known). Its best if you have comments like this to say to someone, to discuss it with them on irc or pm them.

Regards,

Chicka-Maria wrote: Anything added to the game is the development teams business whether it comes to Discussions on Graphics or discussion to content.

It is well-discussed that we would rather have our content under CC than GPL, and dual-licensing is a reasonable long-term plan for that.

The intents of the GPL and CC-BY-SA are essentially the same, even though the exact licenses are different, so it's not unreasonable to expect authors to do that.

(I would prefer existing contributors make a declaration that everything they made alone be dual-licensed).

oh goodness we agree on something.

o11c wrote:

Chicka-Maria wrote: Anything added to the game is the development teams business whether it comes to Discussions on Graphics or discussion to content.

It is well-discussed that we would rather have our content under CC than GPL, and dual-licensing is a reasonable long-term plan for that.

The intents of the GPL and CC-BY-SA are essentially the same, even though the exact licenses are different, so it's not unreasonable to expect authors to do that.

(I would prefer existing contributors make a declaration that everything they made alone be dual-licensed).

A little off-topic, but a large number of artists already accepted this kind of dual-licensing of their work on The Mana World (if no license violation involved of course).
I wonder what former devs/artists of TMW (like Crush) think about it, though.

I agree with licensing all of the GPL content I made for TMW under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

I never considered the GPL to be suitable for artwork anyway.