There is a community universe known as the SCP foundation. Everything pertaining to this universe is for the most part under a CC ShareAlike attribution. There are very few exceptions to this. I read in the creator EULA for UE that this is an incompatible license and using any reference to the SCP Foundation requires the entire game to be made ShareAlike by the licensing on their wiki.
Here is the relevant information from their community: Licensing Guide - SCP Foundation
Game Developers: You are free to
create and share videogames based on
SCP, but you must comply with all
aspects of the license as it relates
to software. That means releasing the
work under CC-by-SA-3.0, including the
release statement prominently on any
store page the game is distributed on
(as well as developer websites and the
like), releasing the game without DRM
if the game costs money (steam and the
like have developer options for this),
not imposing additional legal
restrictions through EULAs or
equivalent user forms, and not
attempting to impede any alternate
distribution sources so long as those
sources in turn follow the terms of
the license.
However after talking to a developer of an Unreal game based on the SCP universe about the EULA, they told me this:
This is referring to Unreal Engine
itself, you are not allowed to
entirely re-release it under a
different license/sub-license, as with
any proprietary technology. We have
already addressed this with our
Epic/Unreal rep in addition to the SCP
wiki Internet Outreach and Licensing
Team.The
content we make and import into Unreal
Engine doesn’t magically become the
property of Unreal Engine/Epic Games,
honestly that simple when it comes
down to it. Hence, why the game
release (verses re-releasing Unreal
Engine itself or its source code from
https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine,
which is what the EULA you posted is
referring to) is a different scenario.Games/software are not entirely
defined by the technology utilized in
their production.
Here’s a link to the game’s page in question which shows that the game is releasing under ShareAlike:
So I am confused. Are we allowed to use ShareAlike content in games or not? The EULA says one thing, but a developer who has a rep at Unreal says otherwise. Some similar questions on this forum have also said it’s not allowed and one of the people responding to those questions claimed to be an attorney for Epic.