[b]Royalty Free Licensed Assets License[/b]
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Licensed Content may not be resold, sublicensed, assigned, transferred or otherwise made available to third parties except as incorporated into Works for Distribution. Licensed Content may not be distributed to third parties as standalone files or in a way that unreasonably permits the recipient to extract the Licensed Content for use separately and apart from the Work for Distribution.
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Licensee shall not use the Licensed Content in a manner that violates the law of any applicable jurisdiction.
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Right now Construct 2's terms are do not reverse engineer or claim ownership of construct 2 itself and ensure you own the right business license for your revenue. (Anything over 5000 requires 400$ license)
I like this, because it means I can make any game I want and worry about my own consequences without some shadowy finger of the tool maker getting in my way. As it is with Game Maker and a few other game dev tools (RPG maker for one).
But this license, I spent months looking at it, so I have come to these conclusions but still would like a little more clarification:
1. Do not claim ownership over any materials sold by the license store.
2. The second you buy it, remove anything clearly representing an asset from the store user before selling what you export from the capx you may have used.
(clearly not sure how this works with music and art but whatever, I'm guessing as long as you just export it WITH your finished game, it counts as you not intending to redistribute it solely.... but then it does state : "[b]except as incorporated into Works for Distribution[/b]")
Now here is where things get tricky or strange
3. You can create works based on it, but they cannot use the original assets?
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Licensee may not incorporate the Licensed Content into a logo, trademark or service mark.
Licensee may not incorporate the Licensed Content in advertisments (excluding advertisments for permitted Work For Distribution), broadcast TV, theatrical or movie releases.
Licensee shall not use the Licensed Content in a manner that violates the law of any applicable jurisdiction.
Licensee shall not claim copyright or attribution of Licensed Content.
Licensee shall not use the Licensed Content in a pornographic or defamatory manner, whether directly or in context or juxtaposition with other materials.
What?
If you buy something that shares with you a CapX, just don't use copy and paste and your fine? How does this work exactly for event list logic. What if I just wanted an example to use to teach myself how to do something or get something done. Is that copyright-able..... "event list code"? It is proven in the software industry you can copyright your code... due to the way they have set up patent laws to cover it. It becomes part of proprietary software it does.
Also, this last one about no "pornographic or defamatory manner", does this apply to just using logic you learned or copied from the example? Or just anything with the identifiable logos and assets from the products? Why even bother to have this, Construct 2 does not disallow pornographic/defamatory products itself, so how does this work exactly? I would assume that the license already covered not using any assets for resell regardless. Unless they are heavily modified and do not even contain the assets sold-as name to begin with. So if you learn to do something or strip away something to its core logical set of editor list instructions, do not use what you learn in any adult games?
To me, a few of these points require further clarification. Further clarification is why people like me choose to keep unity on our harddrive but remove things like game maker after considering what it truly means when accepting certain licenses into our lives. measures of control and moderation basically, I believe we even sign something like this prior to using forums such as this.