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Originally Posted by xeatmyshorts
i am just wondering, will it be necessary to have a license for our game to be up?
like if we dont include a license, will you remove it?
because, i tend to keep my games/apps open source, and its too tedious to take the time to make a license for them. i dont care if people edit my game and whatnot, they can do whatever with it, just as long as they leave credit where it is due, and ask me first, which pretty much was already needed before this license thing.
long short, are developers REQUIRED to add a license to post a game on this site?
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You can release the game under any license you want, even a custom one of your own,
provided that it meets the Open Source Definition. A consequence of this is that you can't require people to ask you to modify your game. However, you
can require people to give credit for any modifications.
It sounds like the BSD license is the best choice for you. Put the BSD license at the top of each code file and change the copyright notice to read something like "Copyright (c) 2009 xeatmyshorts". The license requires that the copyright notice not be removed, meaning that it'll be plainly apparent where the code came from if anyone downloads it.