A license is a way to protect your intellectual property on the map.
For example if you choose "All Right Reserved", no one has the right to edit, redistribute, ... your map. If you are totally open you can put it in the "Public Domain". You can Google for the name of the licenses and you will get more informations on all the things you can / can't do with it.
Anyway, if you just want to create a map and post it. I don't really know about all that stuff myself, I personnaly put all my things in Public Domain so people can do anything they want with my maps :p
I'm pretty sure there are people in here that know more and will tell you which one are the best :P
It has nothing to do with the map making process, we implemented it because we want to make sure that people who upload their projects on mapster got legal possibilities in case of conflict (map stealing, ...). I'm not aware of anyone that sued someone else for this matter but just keep in mind that you are protected when submitting the map.
While this is the internet and backing this stuff up would be rather difficult, I can condense the common ones that I have experience with.
In rough order of author's control:
All Rights Reserved: You and only you are responsible for every aspect of the map. In theory people should have to ask you for permission to play it. Granted you implicitly give that permission by making it available to download, but still...
GPL variants: People have the right to use/redistribute/repackage/reverse engineer your map in whole or in part, as long as they include source documentation in their own project that clearly details what they got from yours. The GPL keeps getting updated as companies try to privatize and exploit it somehow, so you'll have to look up what each version changed and why.
Public Domain: You forfeit all rights to anything regarding your work. In theory this is just like saying you personally wrote the Happy Birthday song. It may be true, but you have absolutely no right to it at all, not even the ska mix that someone made that made it huge on the radio. It is okay for someone to repackage your work as their own original work with this license.
Most people that would like to be given credit for their work if it is re-used publish under a GPL license, and that's by far the one I've seen most often.
Yeah, that sounds good. I would be ok with people learning from any map I ever make, as long as they clearly acknowledge that I created it. Id reccomend that one.
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I am not sure what is ment by the licenses. Do you just pick "all rights reserved" and ignore it, or do you need to buy the license you pick?
Vjeux explained it a bit in another thread a while ago.
While this is the internet and backing this stuff up would be rather difficult, I can condense the common ones that I have experience with.
In rough order of author's control:
All Rights Reserved: You and only you are responsible for every aspect of the map. In theory people should have to ask you for permission to play it. Granted you implicitly give that permission by making it available to download, but still...
GPL variants: People have the right to use/redistribute/repackage/reverse engineer your map in whole or in part, as long as they include source documentation in their own project that clearly details what they got from yours. The GPL keeps getting updated as companies try to privatize and exploit it somehow, so you'll have to look up what each version changed and why.
Public Domain: You forfeit all rights to anything regarding your work. In theory this is just like saying you personally wrote the Happy Birthday song. It may be true, but you have absolutely no right to it at all, not even the ska mix that someone made that made it huge on the radio. It is okay for someone to repackage your work as their own original work with this license.
Most people that would like to be given credit for their work if it is re-used publish under a GPL license, and that's by far the one I've seen most often.
Yeah, that sounds good. I would be ok with people learning from any map I ever make, as long as they clearly acknowledge that I created it. Id reccomend that one.