Dogface opened this issue on Mar 30, 2001 ยท 19 posts
Questor posted Fri, 04 May 2001 at 3:28 PM
I'm not sure where I'd stand on the fence with this one. My free stuff does have a non-commercial/no redistribution restriction on them. Why? No reason other than I'd rather be notified if someone wants to use something I do in a commercial enterprise. I have recently added a request that anything used in such an enterprise that a small percentage (agreed between the user and myself) be donated to a children's charity. I'm sorry, maybe I'm being obtuse but I don't see that I'm doing anything wrong by adding that restriction. I don't want a profit from something I've given away for free, but I don't want that free item then used in something that somebody charges for. They make profit from my free item, just strikes me as a tad wrong. If however they're prepared to talk to me about it, I can be an extremely reasonable person. I do add to my restriction that I want to be contacted should any commercial use for anything I do occur. I think it's only fair, and nice for people to tell me that something I've done is good enough for them to want to use. It's encouraging, helps with the gratitude thing and makes it all somehow worthwhile. So, while I do believe that free is free, I will continue adding the restriction to my free stuff provided other people can see the renders/figures/whatever FREE as well, not charged entrance etc... Also, I don't want people adding my few files to some cd collection and profiting from selling that collection. I know it saves others the phone bill, but it also means people are being charged for something that's essentially free - and that isn't fair by a long chalk. I dunno, maybe I'm just twisted somehow.