I have a questions for you guys, if I am making a game, and throughout the development I ask for donations to help me finish it but ultimately the game will be completely free without any in-game purchases and none of that. Would using foreign assets (3D models. Pictures,etc) be considered commercial use or for entertainment purposes only?
Also I am currently using Make-human in my project and their license requires that if you use it your project must also be open source, how exactly would I make my game made in UE4 open source?
If someone has to give you money to get some kind of access to the game then that would count as a purchase. That counts even if it’s early access and the final game will be free. Essentially–if someone at any point has to pay to access the game in some form then that is a purchase. If the game is always free then there’s no royalty on the donation.
I’m not sure what you mean by foreign assets, if you’re thinking of just random stuff you’ve downloaded online, then that would not be legal to use without permission even if your game is free.
If your game is required to be open source then you would need to make your UE4 project files available, though remember you can’t redistribute UE4 itself, so just your project files.
Thank you for your reply.
So in my example there would be no royalty? I think I was pretty clear when I said the game will be free and I would ask for donations to help me finish it, donating before the release would not grant you a copy of the unfinished game. And I have another scenario. So lets say I have some random npc characters in my game and I offer to immortalize someone by making a character designed to the specification given by the person who donates the most money to the game. What would that be considered?
I’m pretty sure if I take someones image to make a meme and I upload it for free nobody can sue me, so whats the difference with taking it and putting it inside a completely free and open source game?
As long as the person is not given special access to the game as a part of the reward then it’s fine.