Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: free stuff,non-commercial only.just bloody well say so up front.

SoulTaker opened this issue on Apr 19, 2008 · 284 posts


Conniekat8 posted Sun, 20 April 2008 at 3:02 PM

Quote - I was gonna say, until I got to the final few posts, that folks seem to forget that there's a "details" tab which would be the perfect place to put whatever information you want about usage. And perhaps that means that, instead of "commercial and non-commercial", Rosity could simply add "see details for usage"? I mean, that's no big deal to program in, is it?

Not a big deal at all to put that in, and I usually do, in product details or in the readme file.
However, I've gotten bitched at by more then one person that it's waaay too much trouble to actually read the readme of a freebie someone wnts to use.

Especially in my newer non-commercial freebies, in the readme I've put a description that it's only significant commercial use that is not allowed.
I forget the exact verbiage at the moment, but it's something like, if you make a profit of more then $1000 using it, it's not free and you have to contact the freebie provider for terms.

Most of the responses were that it's just too much trouble to bother with the readme, and even with the product dsescription. People whom complained wanted an easily visible demarkation of 'commercial allowed' or 'commercial not allowed', and anything more complex then that was too complicated, and the freebie providers were the bad guys for wanting to define things in better terms before blanketly giving their rights away. (This is based on a recent set of thread sabout freebies that spaned Rendo and DAZ forums)

Very frustrating.  I think the OP also has a misfortune to post this topic perhaps just the few weeks after the recent upheaval about freebies, where  lot of feelings on the topic may still be pretty raw.

I know my first thought whan I saw the thread title was, man, ANOTHER person bemoaning stuff they get for free, and acting like it's their entitlement.

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