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tl;dr This is a book about how to make a 2D JRPG in Lua (with a C++ engine). The source code of the engine and the art assets ship with the book.

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What's the licensing on those?

The project site itself mentions the underlying graphics engine is an Open Source one, but doesn't seem to have info on the licensing for the art/sound assets.

There is a bullet point for the pixel art:

* Over $2500 worth of pixel art (free to use however you like)

But I don't see any concrete licensing statements for the art assets besides that.

The site says that there's over $2500 in assets that come bundled with a permissive license

I was an early supporter (bought the book in pre-release), but the lack of explicit licensing info on the engine and assets has cooled my interest. Hope this gets addressed.

The engine seems to be MIT licensed: https://github.com/dinodeck/dinodeck/blob/master/LICENSE

It says on the page that the assets are custom for the project and have a liberal license, but it doesn't say what the license is in the spot I was reading--I assume MIT.

Hmmmm, assuming anything about licensing kind of makes me nervous. :)

Just emailed the author, to ask directly. Will post the response back here (when received) for reference.

Yep MIT. Email response from the author:

> Hi Justin,

> I want people to be able to use the art however they deem best so the MIT license is the one I've chosen. Though I don't think I've written this anywhere - which I should address!

> -Dan

Why not just clone Pixel Dungeon repo?

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