Frondor Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 I've developed a jQuery (javascript library we all know) plugin using in-game UI assets that I extracted from wowprogramming.com/utils/artbrowser/ The project is open source and non-commercial, just like TC... The question is, how should I license it in order to avoid a possible "take down" coming from Blizzard Lawyers? I've read this already: Looks good until I get into " You also agree that you will not alter, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise modify the Downloaded Content. ". Hell, I think I qualify for the "disassemble" thing... I'm not making money out of it, just like TC, I started this project for learning purposes only. I want to know if is there any way I can license my project in order to not be sued by Blizzard. I'm not pretty sure if I can use the same TC's license... Any hint/help will be really appreciated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nay Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 IANAL The license that you pick doesn't really matter. I guess that your plugin falls in the category of fair use, just like a lot of other projects, fan sites and so on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frondor Posted January 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 I've discussed it a bit on a random chat in SO: http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/28236055#28236055 and they said that I'm screwed up, pretty much I trust TC people more that those devs, I'm just trying to be sure before releasing my project :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Frondor Posted February 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 16 minutes ago, Saben said: It is the same as WoWhead using things like item icons, isn't it? So long as you aren't generating money from it and probably acknowledge blizzard somehow, I think you should be fine. Well.. wowhead is running a licence granted by blizzard, they are partners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortos Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 Blizzard kills anything that gets too much attention and contains assets from their games, not long time ago there was a Starcraft clone in HTML, it contained assets taken directly from the game in PNG format, guess what happened!. I don't think you'll have problems with this one, but if you're too concerned, you can provide a tool that extracts the assets from the game, so you are not distributing the assets directly with your package. -Mortos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frondor Posted February 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 Never thought about that, that's a good point. And a good plan B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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