Contributing to the runtimes.

victor.salazar

I'm a bit puzzled about the following statements:

From support page: "The Spine Runtimes and any derivative works or improvements must be released under Spine Runtimes license."
From the license: "You are granted a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable and non-transferable license to use, install, execute and perform the Spine Runtimes Software (the "Software") and derivative works solely for personal
or internal use. Without the written permission of Esoteric Software (see Section 2 of the Spine Software License Agreement), you may not (a) modify, translate, adapt or otherwise create derivative works, improvements of the Software"

So, does it means that if I develop a new feature for the runtimes I can't use it in a commercial game?

BinaryCats

Pretty sure it means you cant distribute the runtimes with your improvement.

jpoag

victor.salazar ha scritto
derivative works solely for personal
or internal use

Internal can be "personal or internal" can be interpreted as private, commercial use, provided you have purchased a Spine license.

This scheme has killed several of my public enhancements of the Spine runtimes. You can still contribute to the public spine repos, you just have to sign documents that you're giving copyrights of your code to Esoteric.

Mitch

Yea, this stuff needs some clarification >.>

Honestly its kinda scary wording because its all forked onto my personal (public) repo but holds the same license... legal gray area heh.

That being said, I think there is plenty of room for "improving" the Spine runtimes simply by adding auxiliary support scripts. Like the SkeletonRagdoll stuff I just added, I don't think it was necessary to include it in part of the runtimes, it could've been hosted as a unitypackage here on the forums instead and avoided all the licensing stuff. I think most people's improvements to Spine fall under that category. I guess the biggest question is what is the proper way to 'contribute' that stuff.