Hello everyone.

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.

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    2 hours ago

    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.

    • Ars Fireside@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      5·
      2 hours ago

      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.