Can I make my own engine, based on Godot Engine, since Godot seems to be totally open source project?

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I started to think to make my own game engine, but it is pretty hard and pointless to make one from nothing, so I wonder - can I use Godot Engine as a base for engine? Well, I can see that it is fully open source project, but I'm not sure. Or maybe I can rebrand Godot Engine by my own name and then use it in my projects, updating it from time to time. Question is, can I?

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Yes. As godot is MIT licensed, you can do whatever you want with it. Even make your own software, and distribute it comercially and closed source under any other license you want. I think the only obligation is that you include a file with a notice to the license and copyright of godot.

Have in mind that not all Open Source license are such permisive as MIT.

You can read the license here.

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Can you explain, please, which files from repository do I need to include?

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Yes, this one.

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