About the license

Botan_kngl · January 27, 2018, 10:24am

I apologize for the bad english.

I have a question We can sell the games we developed with armory3d ?.Can we develop commercial game with armory3d ?

Do we have to comply with gpl license?.
because the blender is licensed gpl

Naxela · January 27, 2018, 12:15pm

Armory is MPL (Releasing Commercial Products), which I guess is more similar to BSD and MIT. As such I don’t think there should be any problems with neither open source or commercial issues (in other words, you can sell your games)

Armory (as far as I’ve understood) relies on external tech (Iron/Kha/Haxe), and only the actual blender interface (addon) is supposedly gpl, so your products made with Armory doesn’t have to be gpl

AndreaMonzini · January 29, 2018, 1:44pm

Actually Armory license is zlib/libpng.

It’s a permissive free software license, for example you can distribute the binary without the source code, but of course refer to @lubos directly for official response.

github.com

armory3d/armory/blob/master/LICENSE.md

# The zlib/libpng License

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:
The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

lubos · January 29, 2018, 3:51pm

Yes, Armory switched to zlib a while ago to make it even more permissive. You can pretty much do anything with Armory and the sources now (commercial games included), just don’t sue me if your computer explodes.

Naxela · January 29, 2018, 4:51pm

Nice! - Makes it much easier for non-lawyers to understand the license when the number of lines and text went from 370’ish down to just 7