Licencing and educational use.

[Ashaman42]

Hopefully this is the right place for this.

I'm an engineering technician at a university and I've been asked by one of the lecturers to look into space simulation with regards to introducing it into future modules. I'm currently debating whether to use Orbiter or KSP and I had a question regarding using mods. Obviously I know I really need to read the specific licences but they can be a bit 'wall of text' at times.

So my main question is do the commonly used licences have any restrictions on using the mods in an educational setting?

I'm probably, at the very least, going to use:

Kerbal Alarm Clock
MechJeb or KER
Trajectories
Correct COL (unless I use Ferram)
Better Burn Time

Can anyone advise on any restrictions that I might miss when looking at the T&Cs myself?

Cheers.

[DStaal]

All of the above are under standard Open Source licenses, and I don't believe any have any specific restrictions on the mods in educational settings.  (Some of the licenses were written by universities...)  I’m not a lawyer, but I wouldn’t expect you to have any issues.

[Tyko]

1 hour ago, DStaal said:

All of the above are under standard Open Source licenses, and I don't believe any have any specific restrictions on the mods in educational settings.  (Some of the licenses were written by universities...)  I’m not a lawyer, but I wouldn’t expect you to have any issues.

Agreed. just don't try to repackage them under your name or to sell them to another university and you should be fine.

[Ashaman42]

Splendid. No fear on the repackaging - they'd just be used to aid the teaching.

I'm also writing a more in depth data recorder plugin at the moment and I'm not really from a programming background so I expect I'll have some questions in the Plugin subforum too.

Now to persuade the boss to get me a copy of KerbalEDU for testing.