Can I put Godot logo in my paid game?

system · November 20, 2017, 10:08am


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My game has a deal with robots, and I want to put Godot logo somewhere/sometimes on the walls just for fun.
I want to sell my game.
Is it legal to use Godot logo in this case?

system · November 20, 2017, 11:14am


	Reply From:	wombatstampede

You can read more about the godot license here:

And the 3rd party part licenses of godot here:

github.com

godotengine/godot/blob/master/COPYRIGHT.txt

# Exhaustive licensing information for files in the Godot Engine repository
# =========================================================================
#
# This file aims at documenting the copyright and license for every source
# file in the Godot Engine repository, and especially outline the files
# whose license differs from the MIT/Expat license used by Godot Engine.
#
# It is written as a machine-readable format following the debian/copyright
# specification. Globbing patterns (e.g. "Files: *") mean that they affect
# all corresponding files (also recursively in subfolders), apart from those
# with a more explicit copyright statement.
#
# Licenses are given with their debian/copyright short name (or SPDX identifier
# if no standard short name exists) and are all included in plain text at the
# end of this file (in alphabetical order).
#
# Disclaimer for thirdparty libraries:
# ------------------------------------
#
# Licensing details for thirdparty libraries in the 'thirdparty/' directory

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To answer your question:

If I understand correctly, this file contains the license for the logo:
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/master/LOGO_LICENSE.md

Which basically says (a.t.m.) that the LOGO is released under the CC-BY 3.0 license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

Roughly said:
This license allows you to use the logo in commercial projects. However, you would have to name (=attribution) the creator of the logo ( Andrea Calabró ) and the license somewhere in the credits section of this project.

So you don’t need to change the license of your own project. And you’re allowed to sell/hire your project. But there’s this attribution obligation which basically means that the user of your software must somehow be able to see who is the author of that logo and under which license.

Disclaimer:
I am no lawyer so this is no legal advice and all without warranty of being correct.