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New User Legal Question

Postby Nightasy » Tue Mar 08, 2016 11:03 pm

Greetings Makehuman Team,

I'm a scripter and I had a quick question. I developed a system for a game engine and wanted to sell that system on their market. It's really the script system that I wrote which I am selling but was interested in providing a temporary example character model with it. Am I allowed to include a character model that I make using MakeHuman with my script system and sell it? Again, the character model would be used more as a placeholder so people can see how they can implement their own character models into the scripting system for the game engine.

You see, my team and I are developing our own character models from scratch but we also wanted to provide people with an option to just buy the script system we are using to implement our own character models into the game. Sort of like giving them an option to buy our entire kit or just buy the base scripts we use for that kit. I just need a simple character model that I can give a few morph targets to and throw into the script system as an example for my customers to follow if they just want the scripts. Can I do that with a MakeHuman character model? If I can, are their any requirements such as me being required to link to the MakeHuman site?

I tried to garnish this information from the legal stuff you have posted and I'm not good with legal talk.

I guess this can be rounded into a simple question.
Can I make a character model using MakeHuman and include it as an asset of a bigger product that I am selling?

Best Regards,
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Re: New User Legal Question

Postby gaiha » Wed Mar 09, 2016 12:08 am

in simplest terms... what you CREATE with the MakeHuman software is YOURS and you are free to do with it as you choose. period. It doesn't get any simpler than that.
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Re: New User Legal Question

Postby joepal » Wed Mar 09, 2016 6:56 am

The FAQ is often a good place to find answers to frequently answered questions: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/wiki/ ... keHuman%3F

Reading the license terms might also provide some hints: "You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission" (from the CC0 license text)
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Re: New User Legal Question

Postby arteria3d » Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:14 pm

This is great. I myself run arteria3d.com and working on so many projects, its great to have something like make human to make the job a lot easier. I myself would like to use a character I create from make human as the foundation for other elements to add, such as armour etc. Are there no other restrictions on being able to supply make human created content in saleable products? Like this user, I re-read and re-read your more simpler license agreement, but I was still confused, so In order to clarify for myself, and cover myself legally, indeed.. is it ok to use make human models on my content too?Do I have to include anything else other the make human model? and of course, and is there any specific credit information I have to give.

Thankyou.. im sure you get hundreds of questions like this over the past years.
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Re: New User Legal Question

Postby duststorm » Thu Mar 17, 2016 3:09 pm

arteria3d wrote:Are there no other restrictions on being able to supply make human created content in saleable products?

None whatsoever :)

Btw, I like your site, I've already bought some assets from it in the past!
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