License for GAME.ini's

PortalMario · 10-31-2022, 10:29 PM #1

Hi,

i'm currently writing a bash script, that distributes my custom game.ini files aswell as my custom dolphin.ini. As i want to make the project open source using MIT-License, i kindly wanted to ask if its okay to distribute custom game.ini files.

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**JosJuice** · 11-01-2022, 05:20 AM #2

If you want to redistribute the game INIs that come with Dolphin: I'm not sure if the game INIs can be considered copyrightable or not... I can't speak for everyone, but at least for the changes I've made to the game INIs, I don't mind them being redistributed under a different license.

If you want to redistribute game INIs you made yourself: If you made them, you decide what to do with them. There are no potential concerns here.

PortalMario · 11-01-2022, 05:44 AM #3

(11-01-2022, 05:20 AM)JosJuice Wrote: If you want to redistribute the game INIs that come with Dolphin: I'm not sure if the game INIs can be considered copyrightable or not... I can't speak for everyone, but at least for the changes I've made to the game INIs, I don't mind them being redistributed under a different license.

If you want to redistribute game INIs you made yourself: If you made them, you decide what to do with them. There are no potential concerns here.

Thanks for the great help/advise! Closing this now.

p.s. Thanks for this GREAT piece of software! Dolphin really is a great open source project.

**mbc07** · 11-01-2022, 11:40 AM #4

IANAL but considering Dolphin's repository is licensed under GPL v2 or later (excluding Externals and other submodules we pull from other projects -- those have their own licenses), from my understanding the Game INIs are GPL v2+ too, even though we don't slap a SPDX License Identifier on them...

PortalMario · 11-02-2022, 01:58 AM #5

(11-01-2022, 11:40 AM)mbc07 Wrote: IANAL but considering Dolphin's repository is licensed under GPL v2 or later (excluding Externals and other submodules we pull from other projects -- those have their own licenses), from my understanding the Game INIs are GPL v2+ too, even though we don't slap a SPDX License Identifier on them...

But does this also apply to self written ini's?

**mbc07** · 11-02-2022, 06:25 PM #6

No, you can license INIs you write yourself to whatever license you want...