Library License Terms? #2
Description
I'm currently working on updating an early draft of the Italian translation of ADRIFT 5, which dates back to 2011:
I need some clarification about the library files license. Are they subject to the BSD 3-clause license, like the rest of the project?
I'm asking because I couldn't find any mention regarding permission to reuse the library — i.e. before they were published on GitHub under BSD. Yet, end users have been freely creating adventures using the library files, long before the ADRIFT source code was released.
Technically speaking, any adventure that uses the library is a derivative work thereof (for it includes its code), and therefore bound to the same legal restrictions; yet no instructions are provided in the ADRIFT documentation regarding inclusion of a license file in published adventures.
I've now created a GitHub repository for ultimating the translation work:
Because of GitHub terms of service regarding inclusion of third pary code and assets, I need to add an explicit license for both the original library files and the translated libraries (derivative work).
My understanding (but I might wrong on this) is that if I publish ADRIFT Italian under BSD 3-clause license, end users creating games with the library will be under the obbligation of including the license with their released adventures — which is fine with me, I just wanted confirmation from you, the original author and copyright holder.
I'd like to include in the repository also copy of the original English library files, as a reference for the translation work as well as for diffing purposes, so that when the upstream library gets updated I can track what needs to be integrated into the Italian translation.