can I share Wesnoth music in Morrowind Nexus?
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can I share Wesnoth music in Morrowind Nexus?
Hello, I wish to share Wesnoth's soundtrack to the Morrowind Nexus modding community to be used within the Morrowind game as game music.
Case in point, I have shared 0 A.D.'s soundtrack in Morrowind Nexus, here's the link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45113
According to 0 A.D., their soundtrack is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 3.0 license which allows me to redistribute their songs without asking their permission, as long as I give them credit and distribute the songs under the same license or a similar free license.
See here: https://play0ad.com/media/music/
Can I also do this with Wesnoth's music? And can I convert the songs from .ogg to .mp3? Because Morrowind's game engine will not read .ogg music files.
Case in point, I have shared 0 A.D.'s soundtrack in Morrowind Nexus, here's the link: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45113
According to 0 A.D., their soundtrack is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 3.0 license which allows me to redistribute their songs without asking their permission, as long as I give them credit and distribute the songs under the same license or a similar free license.
See here: https://play0ad.com/media/music/
Can I also do this with Wesnoth's music? And can I convert the songs from .ogg to .mp3? Because Morrowind's game engine will not read .ogg music files.
Re: can I share Wesnoth music in Morrowind Nexus?
Here is the relevant section on the wiki:
https://wiki.wesnoth.org/Wesnoth:Copyri ... tributions
Please don't consider this an official answer, but if I am reading and interpreting it correctly, it means you are free to distribute all the official music in current versions of Wesnoth according to the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Our community manager Vultraz may be able to provide more clarity on that point.
https://wiki.wesnoth.org/Wesnoth:Copyri ... tributions
Please don't consider this an official answer, but if I am reading and interpreting it correctly, it means you are free to distribute all the official music in current versions of Wesnoth according to the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Our community manager Vultraz may be able to provide more clarity on that point.
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Re: can I share Wesnoth music in Morrowind Nexus?
As far as I'm aware, all the current music aside from the new Return to Wesnoth track are still under the GPL.
The key part being:
The key part being:
since I don't think anyone has gone and asked any of the previous music contributors about re-licensing their songs to CC BY-SA.All visual and audio assets are licensed under either the GNU GPL v2 or later, or the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0.
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Re: can I share Wesnoth music in Morrowind Nexus?
Thanks for the replies, the music that I will be sharing is the Core Music found here: https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree ... core/music
Thanks, I will be messaging the community manager Vultraz on their opinion on this, thanks.
Thanks, I will be messaging the community manager Vultraz on their opinion on this, thanks.
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Re: can I share Wesnoth music in Morrowind Nexus?
I have already private messaged community manager Vultraz, I haven't received a reply.
Based off my understanding of the GNU General Public License v2.0, I am allowed to distribute and modify the songs, in this case, I am modifying the songs, converting ogg to mp3, and the converting software I am using is Audacity.
GNU General Public License v2.0 - https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-gener ... license-v2
Anyway, I will go ahead and share the music in Morrowind Nexus and I will provide a link to the mod here.
Based off my understanding of the GNU General Public License v2.0, I am allowed to distribute and modify the songs, in this case, I am modifying the songs, converting ogg to mp3, and the converting software I am using is Audacity.
GNU General Public License v2.0 - https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-gener ... license-v2
Anyway, I will go ahead and share the music in Morrowind Nexus and I will provide a link to the mod here.
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Re: can I share Wesnoth music in Morrowind Nexus?
Here's the link to the mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45540