Permissive Re-Release
Team Minko World LLC releases its games under a proprietary,
All Rights Reserved
license by default. However, we are
big fans of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). As such, we've decided to mark some of our work as
Permissive Re-Release Candidates
, meaning that, if certain conditions are met, the game or product will be re-released with a much more permissive license. For example, a game may be re-released under CC BY-SA 4.0 when it reaches $10,000 in sales. This gives you more freedom in what you can do with the game, such as modifying it to suit your wants and needs. Each of our game's project pages will have a section explaining the conditions and the specific permissive license it will be re-released under.
We believe in the value of FOSS and other permissively licensed works. In fact, a large part of the internet would not be possible as-is if not for mountains of free and open source software. Everything from web servers to editing software, even whole computer operating systems, stand as the backbone for much of the modern world's IT infrastructure, and we have built our company on the shoulders of these giants. We hope that some day, our work will be valuable enough that releasing it under a permissive license would be appreciated by people, perhaps you included!
If you would like to learn more about some of the permissive licenses we plan to use, or to learn about FOSS in general, here are some resources from around the web you may find interesting: