License open source project with retropie-setup | General License Question

PortalMario

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.

mitu

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/.

PortalMario

@mitu
Thanks a lot for the great advice! This can be closed now.