Hey there!
Initially, i created AAR without a license, or rather: a joke license (
Beerware). Recently, I was notified of a legal issue regarding stuff contributed to AAR (and would have caused a lawsuite), and content potentially being owned by Paradox via me, which would have been a legal issue, but is not.). Thus, i was forced to investigate into putting AAR under a "real" license, to avoid future legal issues. I hate all this legal-stuff, but it needs to be done to prevent any future issues, also with wikipedia-text, contributors or merger-mods.
For those who are interested, and might know the issue: The Paradox-Forum License(all stuff you post in the forums becomes property of Paradox) only covers content posted on the forums, it does not apply to the actual AAR-Mod because this Mod, the Site and Repository are located in Germany and Austria (thus, no content quietly changes ownership, so "your" rights are not in danger...). Besides that, AAR never was (and must never be) posted in the forums directly, but only as link to the AAR-Website. The forum just contains images and links to the AAR website. Here foreign language licenses like the Paradox-License are invalid by nature and also need to be available in German to be legally binding.
As more and more people are becoming in involved into AAR, it is very important to put AAR under a copyleft license. Usually i would put a project under GPLv2 or later, but this would be a problem for putting AAR into DH.
Thus, I'm thinking about using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (copyleft, worldwide validity, legally binding localized license version, use/modify with naming the creator(s)).
This is a very liberal license, which is also used widely by many OSS-projects. Also, it's compatible with the text and event-data used in the mod, which is largely taken off Wikipedia. Noncommercial is important in this case, as it basically prevents AAR to be sold without consent, allowing direct commercial use would also break the Wikipedia-TOS. Wikipedia uses this license, which eliminates all potential hazards with using their translations.
So, if you are REALLY interested in the legal stuff:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Damn, so i spent half a day now, reading legal shit, ... great ... It would be especially important for me to know from you, Limith, if you consent with this, as you seem to have become my "Enterprise-D's Commander Riker". ;-)
This is just a notifier, please DO NOT comment on this issue in the forums, but on the AAR site. Any discussion on this topic in the forums WILL be ignored. This is not the place to discuss legal issues, please do so at the AAR site:
http://aarmod.cfuchs.net/ticket/159 - This is a ticket i created for discussion of the topic, I'd appreciate input by everyone involved into AAR (current and former contributors and us two devs).
Oh: I'm sorry to occupy your time with this, but it IS important, and I don't want to do this arbitrarily.