Licensing/uploading a Ren'Py game on GitHub and itch.io [Solved]

[kafkaontheshore]

Hello there,

I am really unsure/know absolutely nothing about this topic:

I want to upload a game to itch.io and GitHub. I would like to make it Open Source. In that case if changes are made and then uploaded, do they have to refer to the original? Also we would not like it if it would be used for commercial use or that the pictures just get used by others (I did not made them, I am okay if other people use my code though), a changed version would be probably okay.
I do not want to get anything wrong :p And do I have to somehow specify that I used Ren'Py in anyway?
Or did Ren'Py provided everything to begin with?

Thank you for your time!

[felix]

All open source licenses allow commercial reuse, by definition, as long as the other license terms are followed. Most open source licenses require attribution, but not all. You're probably thinking a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, that you can apply to your assets; Ren'Py itself is under the MIT License (but see here for details), so in principle you need to state somewhere that you're using it. However a copy of its own license file is included in every game archive, so that's taken care of for you.

Either way, you'd still need to choose a separate license for your own game code. Lately I prefer the Artistic License 2.0 for that, because in name and spirit it's very well suited for works that are both code and art at the same time, such as games.

[kafkaontheshore]

That looks good, I will look into it!
Thank you