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Licence

Preface​

In short, you may use MooaToon for any non-commercial purpose. But before engaging in commercial activities, you must obtain a commercial license.

For commercial licensing or other inquiries, please contact us by email: jasonma@mooatoon.com

Main Text​

The following is a User License Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement"). The Agreement may be updated at any time. Please Watch this repository for update notifications. If different language versions of the Agreement conflict, the Chinese version shall prevail.

If you continue to use MooaToon, it is deemed that you have understood and agreed to this agreement. If you use and violate the terms of this agreement, we reserve the right to hold you accountable at any time.

The author of MooaToon is Jason Ma (hereinafter referred to as the "author"), and it consists of the following parts:

  1. "Engine Changes": means the parts modified by the Author based on Epic Games, i.e., the changes that are compared to the Epic Games repository
  2. "Plugin Content": means files created by the Author, including but not limited to:
    1. Engine branch: Engine/Plugins/MooaToon
    2. Engine branch other non-third-party additions (e.g. ToonShadingCommon.ush.))
    3. Non-third-party content within the Project branch
  3. "Rendering Technology": refers to the technical concept designed by the Author and guided by the completion of "Engine Changes" and "Plugin Content"

For Engine Changes, we follow the "Epic Agreement", and for plugin content and rendering technology, we have the following restrictions on the Epic Agreement:

Commercial Activity​

Before you obtain a Commercial License, you may not use MooaToon for any Commercial Activities.

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Commercial Activities here refer to earning money directly from works rendered by MooaToon. For example:

  • Sales of game works using MooaToon 

  • Using MooaToon for rendering, and embedded sponsor advertisements, or videos produced by sponsors

  • Using MooaToon for rendering, live streaming with monetary rewards 

Excluding indirect monetary gains, or indirect use of MooaToon, for example:

  • Publish works on websites such as YouTube without sponsorship, and receive platform revenue sharing based on views

  • Create works without sponsorship, and then earn fan subscription revenue through platforms such as Patreon

  • Using MooaToon to render images or videos, but not directly benefiting from it, and not constituting a primary component of a commercial work

Specifically, if your work's purpose is to promote MooaToon, you do not need to obtain a commercial license! For example:

  • Selling tutorials on how to use MooaToon

For some situations involving multiple parties, which party needs to purchase a commercial license is determined by the copyright of the work, for example:

  • A company pays an individual to make a video, and the video is published on the individual's account.
    In this case the work's copyright belongs to the individual, and the individual needs to purchase the commercial license.
  • A company pays an individual to make a video (or the individual is an employee of the company), and the video is published on the company's account.
    In this case the copyright of the work belongs to the company, and the company needs to purchase a commercial license.
  • For special situations such as copyright transfer or multiple parties sharing copyright,
    the party with the largest income and scale needs to purchase a commercial license.

Additionally, you can use MooaToon for any purposes other than commercial, but you are solely responsible for all consequences of your actions.

Modification​

You are free to modify MooaToon as you wish, but all rights to MooaToon still belong to the author.

At the same time, it is also prohibited to change engine modifications or plugin content in an attempt to circumvent this agreement without significantly altering rendering techniques.

Redistribution​

You may only redistribute MooaToon publicly for non-commercial purposes, and you must retain the original attribution and author information during redistribution.

For example, the following redistributions are permitted:

  • Forking and modifying MooaToon-related repositories on GitHub for non-commercial purposes
  • Publicly uploading copies of MooaToon to cloud storage to facilitate downloads by others for non-commercial purposes
  • Distributing modified versions of MooaToon within a team after purchasing a commercial license

The following redistributions are prohibited:

  • Public redistribution for commercial purposes, regardless of whether a commercial license has been purchased
  • Intentionally altering or removing attribution and author information during redistribution