SoulTaker opened this issue on Apr 19, 2008 · 284 posts
bantha posted Mon, 21 April 2008 at 11:25 AM
Quote - I must point out (for the third time now) there is no correct label for what is proably the biggest category - commercial renders OK, redistribution and resale not OK. Bitching at people for not picking a choice that can't be picked is what this thread is really about.
As I stated earlier, I don't think that most people understand the label in the way you do. I find it pretty clear that the freestuff here is not published for further distribution. And, by the way, this still can be clarified in the ReadMe. I don't think there are much people here scanning the freestuff for things they can legally sell somewhere else. To my experience, people who try to sell other peoples stuff from here mostly don't care about copyright, they may use any excuse. Actually, harvesting free stuff and selling it otherwhere has a foul stench even if copyrights are honored. I may be naive, but I haven't seen this a lot.
There is no reason why someone should think he could sell other people's freestuff just because the "commercial allowed" flag is set. There is no reason not to read or follow the ReadMe-file. **Adiing to that, please note that the main problem as I see it are users who flag their stuff as "commercial use allowed" and disallow in the read me.
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By the way, I have no problems with people NOT setting the commercial flag. I will not download, so I won't waste my time. If you think you need to set your free stuff to "no commercial" even if you allow commercial renders you are fine by me.
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