I'm developing an open-source visual novel engine. And I'm struggling to choose between the two licenses: MIT and BSD 3-Clause. I wasn't much about licenses until this moment, so I have to ask someone else. Which one should I pick and why, if someone knows?

Thank you in advance.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, why develop your own instead of contributing to RenPy? Not saying there can't be good reasons, just curious what they are in this case.

[–] ArsFireside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Long story short, it all started with an argument between me and a guy who thought only Japanese VN-related anything is usable normally, and that all Western VN-related software (Ren'Py included) are either clunky or laggy garbage. He also gave a Japanese novel engine called Light.vn (don't mind the link, it's the engine name) as an example (there is a killer feature in it: WYSIWYG editor). So I started my engine to prove him wrong.

After some time, I really saw that Ren'Py is not as fast as it was when I started to use it long ago. But that's because it uses modern Python, which is by itself not too fast and lightweight anymore.

That's why I write my engine in C and aim to make it much faster than Ren'Py and with better UX. Not speaking of a desire to create something meaningful myself.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Might as well use MIT in that case then.

[–] ArsFireside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Aha, okay. The same Ren'Py does. Thank you, I'll think about it.