"...put a clause about open distribution in your readme NOW." I think we all can agree on that. For the economic or other reasons stated though, people may be reluctant to do that. The problem is, there is no easy way to change your mind if you die (how many people put their 3D stuff in their will?). Also, people may lose their website for financial or other reasons, get bored and leave the hobby, etc. Sometimes, you see someone post, 'Hey, I'm retiring to Tibet, anyone who wants can distribute my stuff,' but not very often. Does everyone even necessarily even think about it though? To be clear, I'm not thinking about the folks who choose NOT to allow distribution. I'm thinking of the (perhaps many) times when people just don't really think about it one way or another when they leave and who might like to have their creations remain available if there were a structured way of giving them to the community. Hopefully that all made sense. If people really want the stuff to go away, that's fine, I have no problem with that. I just wonder how often that happens more or less by default. Because of Sthalrette's work, some people are getting back into Posette, they were giving away Poser 3 on cover disks a while back and the same may happen eventually with Poser Artist. New people come into the community and there are so many great things they could use and enjoy that simply disappeared. It would be nice to save some of them.

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