Game publishing?

[shirleykings]

yes.

[maqifrnswa]

tl;dr Thus answer with a yes or no please i know i would have to give 100% credit and not make money off it.

There is no easy "yes/no" answer the way the license currently stands.

The following is ALWAYS true: You own the copyright to your own work. Whatever mapfiles and content you create, you can do whatever you want with it. I strongly suggest you also license it (there is a tutorial on how to license your own work in the tutorials forum). Since you own your own content, you can give it to anyone for however much money you want.

HOWEVER, if you also give them a copy of sandbox to run your content, or you need images/textures/objects included with sandbox, you have to follow the license for sandbox and/or the content. Sandbox's license is kind of irregular since the "spirit" of the license and what is actually written in the license contradict each other. Mike is actively working on improving it (part of the reason why they are going to 100% free content.) But, for now, it is best if you just tell your users to download Sandbox from www.sandboxgamemaker.com and to use the content that they download from your website. That is perfectly legal and in the spirit of the license. It's also polite if you tell Platinum Arts about your project so they know about it.

Platinum Arts, ever since version 2.6, allows you to post their source code and binaries on your site for download as well, but it's not clear whether you are allowed to post modded sandbox versions. It's hairy because the license for the code and content allows for modifications, but the license for sandbox as a whole does not grant a license for modifications. Although PAS probably doesn't have a problem with you writing your own hacks and mods, that is not allowed in their current licenses and you need to get permission from them to do that.

I believe Mike is moving to a license in the future which the answer will be: you can pretty much do whatever you want as long as you don't misrepresent sandbox's work as your own and your changes to their code remains open source (simply put: the engine will be zlib licensed and the content CC-BY-SA, no additional terms/conditions to muddle the legal space.)

Sorry for the not-so-simple answer, but that is what it is for now.