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You cannot fork it and change its licence unless orig unreal license permits you to do it. Does it? edit: it doesn't unless Epic Games grants you a specific li

You cannot fork it and change its licence unless orig unreal license permits you to do it. Does it? edit: it doesn't unless Epic Games grants you a specific license to do that. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/unreal https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/unreal source: > 4. How You Can Share the Licensed Technology When It Isn’t Part of a Product > You may only Distribute Licensed Technology (including as modified by you) outside of a Product as expressly permitted by this Section 4. > a. Sharing of Engine Code > i. Sharing Engine Code with Another Licensee You may Distribute Engine Code (including as modified by you) in Source Code or object code to a third party who is separately licensed by us to use the same version of the Engine Code that you are Distributing. >Any public Distribution of Engine Tools (e.g., intended generally for third parties who are separately licensed by us to use the Engine Code) must take place through a marketplace operated by Epic such as the Unreal Engine Marketplace (e.g., for Distributing a Product’s modding tool or editor to end users) or through a fork of Epic’s GitHub UnrealEngine Network (e.g., for Distributing Source Code).

charcircuit 3y ago
>You cannot fork it and change its licence You can't do that for Godot either.
- prmoustache 3y ago
  Yes you can but still need to mention the original licence and copyright notice. But your end product can be proprietary, or released under other license such as the GPLv3.
  - charcircuit 3y ago
    You can not chance the license of code you do not own.
    - prmoustache 3y ago
      But you own the modifications of your code so you can still license your derived work as closed as you want as long you as you obey the original MIT license terms which consists only mentionning it and keeping original copyright notice. That is what all company selling proprietary products that include MIT and BSD licensed codes do. Usually the jist include a file called "third party copyright notice" with the product ad well as an entry in the "about" section of their gui.

charcircuit 3y ago

>You cannot fork it and change its licence You can't do that for Godot either.

prmoustache 3y ago
Yes you can but still need to mention the original licence and copyright notice. But your end product can be proprietary, or released under other license such as the GPLv3.
- charcircuit 3y ago
  You can not chance the license of code you do not own.
  - prmoustache 3y ago
    But you own the modifications of your code so you can still license your derived work as closed as you want as long you as you obey the original MIT license terms which consists only mentionning it and keeping original copyright notice. That is what all company selling proprietary products that include MIT and BSD licensed codes do. Usually the jist include a file called "third party copyright notice" with the product ad well as an entry in the "about" section of their gui.