License open source project with retropie-setup | General License Question
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Hi!
Thanks for creating this great project (retropie-setup)!I am currently building a x86 retropie and therefore i wrote a script that for example: increases the boot-time, adds a custom splashscreen animation, enables autologin, disables all boot-messages and so on. In addition the script clones the retropie-setup repo during script runtime. It then invokes the following script modules:
- setup basic_install
- dolphin
- esthemes install_theme "eudora-bigshot" "AmadhiX"
Of course this starts the compile process for various other software projects used in retropie. (e.g. Dolphin, mupen64, etc..) My script also configures for example: dolphin/retropie config files after the installation.
Question:
I'm looking into open-source licensing for a few days now and i kindly want to ask, if someone from the team could recommend which to choose in my case? (As i'm using/configuring the compiled software and cloning the retropie-setup repo)I've looked at https://retropie.org.uk/about/legal/ but i'm still not 100% sure if i have to release the project under GPLv3 or if MIT is sufficient. (expecially regarding the other projects eg: dolphin, themes, mupen64)
I hope i've provided enough information. Please note, that i am a relative newbie to opensource-licensing and i find it expecially hard in case of retropie-setup's included projects to choose the right license that respect retropie-setup and its included other repos in my case.
Contribution to the Project
Also i'm planing to create a Pull Request in the future adding those x86 features mentioned above. -
If the scripts are your own, you're not constrained by the RetroPie or other packages' license. Just use whatever public license you wish. See https://choosealicense.com/.
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@mitu
Thanks a lot for the great advice! This can be closed now.
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