The engine
The source code of Nau Engine is released under the 3-Clause BSD License also named (“New BSD License” or “Modified BSD License”).
This license grants users such rights:
• You are free to use Nau Engine, for any purpose
• You can modify the source code of Nau Engine and create derivatives
• You can distribute, sublicense modified versions of source code of Nau Engine, even commercially and under a different license (including proprietary)
• The only restriction to that third freedom is that you need to distribute the copyright notice and license statement of Nau Engine whenever you redistribute it and provide the full text of license in modified software. So your derivative product may have a different license, but should still state in its documentation that it derives from the 3-Claused BSD licensed Nau Engine (see below) and have a text of it.
Your game
The terms and conditions of the Nau Engine license do not apply to content created with the Nau Engine. The Licensee is free to license their games in accordance with their own preferences and will retain sole copyright ownership.
It should be noted, however, that the Nau Engine binary distributed with the game constitutes a copy of the "Software" as defined in the licence. Consequently, the copyright notice and licence statement must be included in the documentation.
The Nau Engine developers consider that a link to this page (https://nauengine.org/en/service/tos) in your game documentation or credits would be an acceptable way to satisfy the license terms.
See Complying with Licenses in the documentation for more information.
THE N-GINN LLC MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE MATERIALS, THE GAME CONTENT, OR THE CONTENT OF ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO THE GAME.
License text
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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Third-party components
Nau Engine employs a multitude of third-party libraries and code, which are distributed under their own license and copyright statements. All such components are compatible with the terms of Nau Engine's license. For a comprehensive overview of all third-party components used in Nau Engine and their respective licenses, please refer to this list.
DagorEngine
Upstream: https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/DagorEngine.git
License: BSD 3-Clause License
cocos2d-x
Upstream: https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x.git
License: MIT
DirectX-Headers
Upstream: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectX-Headers.git
License: MIT
EABase
Upstream: https://github.com/electronicarts/EABase.git
License: BSD 3-Clause License
EASTL
Upstream: https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL.git
License: BSD 3-Clause License
GameNetworkingSockets
Upstream: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets.git
License: BSD 3-Clause License
JoltPhysics
Upstream: https://github.com/jrouwe/JoltPhysics.git
License: MIT
ModifiedSonyMath
Upstream: https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge/tree/master/Common_3/Utilities/ThirdParty/OpenSource/ModifiedSonyMath
License: BSD 3-Clause License
renderdoc
Upstream: https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc.git
License: MIT
AMD Display Library SDK
Upstream: https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/display-library.git
License: https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/display-library/blob/master/Public-Documents/ADL%20SDK%20EULA.pdf
ASIO
Upstream: https://github.com/chriskohlhoff/asio/
License: Boost Software License 1.0
binPack2D
Upstream: https://github.com/InfinityTools/binpack2d.git
License: MIT
brotli
Upstream: https://github.com/google/brotli.git
License: MIT
dxc
Upstream: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler.git
License: University of Illinois Open Source License
fast_float
Upstream: https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float.git
License: MIT, Apache 2.0, Boost Software License 1.0
fmt
Upstream: https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt.git
License: MIT
fsr2
Upstream: https://github.com/GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-FSR2.git
License: MIT
gainput
Upstream: https://github.com/jkuhlmann/gainput.git
License: MIT
googletest
Upstream: https://github.com/google/googletest.git
License: BSD 3-Clause License
imgui
Upstream: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui.git
License: MIT
ispc_texcomp
Upstream: https://github.com/GameTechDev/ISPCTextureCompressor.git
License: MIT
jsoncpp
Upstream: https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp.git
License: MIT
libpng-libpng16
Upstream: https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng.git
License: PNG Reference Library License version 2
luau
Upstream: https://github.com/luau-lang/luau.git
License: MIT
lzma-9.20
Upstream:
License: LZMA SDK is written and placed in the public domain by Igor Pavlov.
Some code in LZMA SDK is based on public domain code from another developers:
1) PPMd var.H (2001): Dmitry Shkarin
2) SHA-256: Wei Dai (Crypto++ library)
md5
Upstream:
License: Apache 2.0, MIT
miniaudio
Upstream: https://github.com/mackron/miniaudio.git
License: MIT
ozz-animation
Upstream: https://github.com/guillaumeblanc/ozz-animation.git
License: MIT
ska_hash_map
Upstream: https://github.com/skarupke/flat_hash_map.git
License: Boost Software License 1.0
stb
Upstream: https://github.com/nothings/stb.git
License: MIT
tiny-utf8
Upstream: https://github.com/DuffsDevice/tiny-utf8.git
License: BSD 3-Clause License
tinygltf
Upstream: https://github.com/syoyo/tinygltf.git
License: MIT
tinyimageformat
Upstream: https://github.com/DeanoC/tiny_imageformat.git
License: MIT
tracy
Upstream: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy.git
License: BSD 3-Clause License
uriparser
Upstream: https://github.com/uriparser/uriparser.git
License: BSD 3-Clause License
utfcpp
Upstream: https://github.com/nemtrif/utfcpp.git
License: Boost Software License 1.0
wyhash
Upstream: https://github.com/wangyi-fudan/wyhash.git
License: The Unlicense
xxHash
Upstream: https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash.git
License: BSD 2-Clause License
zlib-ng
Upstream: https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng.git
License: zlib License
zstd
Upstream: https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd.git
License: BSD 3-Clause License
Upstream: https://github.com/githubuser0xFFFF/Qt-Advanced-Docking-System
Version: 65600a4dcd072fd2773b661823816db6392c34eb
License: LGPL-2.1 license
Upstream: https://github.com/GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-FSR2
Version: 9a9308fd5477d2a44f4e491d5a712546d4a2b3e4
License: MIT
Upstream: https://github.com/madler/zlib.git
Version: 04f42ceca40f73e2978b50e93806c2a18c1281fc
License: zlib
Upstream: https://github.com/nih-at/libzip.git
Version: a5feb6b3e27b1c2116a5c63386a14968a12ed362
License: 3-clause BSD license
Upstream: https://github.com/curl/curl.git
Version: e53df4cf080739899985799a1138469778c7c6d5
License: Free Software: MIT/X derivate license
Upstream: https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git
Version: 66f4782f1452d6fbfab78822b340a99aaeacc2f0
License: Apache-2.0
Upstream: https://github.com/google/googletest.git
Version: 6a5938233b6519ba99ddb7c7314d45d3fa877969
License: 3-clause BSD license
Upstream: https://github.com/Countly/countly-sdk-cpp.git
Version: 79038e07c13186a42ee0b40b5a87def3e1a408ec
License: MIT