Free bus sprites for everyone

[justaplayer]

I have decided to make a bus sprites for someone who wants some. More buses will be in the replies.
Heres the first bus i have made: License GPL v3 and CC-BY

[Eddi]

two immediate points:

1. you need an explicit license. for example something like CC-BY, or CC-0. just saying "free, take it" is probably not enough. for future reuse it's also probably easiest if you name this license in each file
2. this is probably better fitting into the graphics development subforum

[Erato]

In fact, there's a topic for specifically this sort of stuff:
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=61660

[audigex]

two immediate points:

1. you need an explicit license. for example something like CC-BY, or CC-0. just saying "free, take it" is probably not enough. for future reuse it's also probably easiest if you name this license in each file
2. this is probably better fitting into the graphics development subforum

Also, if you really want to make it useful for others to include in their sets, release it under several licenses simultaneously... that way people can use it regardless of what license their set currently uses

As an example the BRTrains set is GPLv2 and has so many sprites by different artists that it would be impossible to ask them all to change to Creative Commons: many haven't posted in years. So unless a sprite is released in GPLv2, it's not getting into the set no matter how good it is.

Releasing it as CC-0/CC-BY, GPLv2, GPLv3, Apache, and MIT would probably cover pretty much anything anyone's ever going to want to do with your work

[planetmaker]

Releasing it as CC-0/CC-BY, GPLv2, GPLv3, Apache, and MIT would probably cover pretty much anything anyone's ever going to want to do with your work

CC-BY is totally sufficient and allows re-use in every scenario other than total public domain (thus it requires that the original artist is credited and nothing more, whatever your set's license).

[audigex]

Releasing it as CC-0/CC-BY, GPLv2, GPLv3, Apache, and MIT would probably cover pretty much anything anyone's ever going to want to do with your work

CC-BY is totally sufficient and allows re-use in every scenario other than total public domain (thus it requires that the original artist is credited and nothing more, whatever your set's license).

CC-BY is compatible with GPLv3 but not GPLv2, isn't it?

[planetmaker]

CC-BY is compatible with GPLv3 but not GPLv2, isn't it?

You are probably thinking of CC-BY-SA being one-way compatible with GPL v3 (but not GPLv2).

CC-BY without further restrictions is compatible with any GPL-licensed project (whatever GPL version).

[audigex]

Ah okay, that's a my bad