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 Thu, 24 April 2008 at 1:50 PM

Quote - > Quote - Bitch n Moan Thread is what this thread is all about. If you want to skip that thread read this

Not at all. It's about correctly labeling stuff. No one asked for a freebie, or asked for more commercial usable ones. The only bitch and moan I came about was about the homepage of the OP. But there already were a lot of posts which assumed this would be a Bitch and Moan thread.

So how do you label 'some or conditional commercial use permitted'? 
We have commercial and non commercial right now.

Some people will argue that 'Conditional commercial use' falls under 'commercial use permitted', others will argue that it falls under commercial use not permitted.  It's open to subjective interpretations. So, when you have conditions attached to commercial use, there really is no way to label it correctly.

If you label it non-commercial, and you allow most poserdom commercial uses with no conditions, lot of people will miss out on it, unecessarily.
Also, if you label your freebies non comercial, you open yourself up to unecessary attacks from people whom blanketly think that should they win a $20 gift certificate on an occasional render, you're going to begrudge it. And people complaining that it's too hard and time consuming to read the readme's.

If you label it commercial ok, but add a caviot like: ask for permission first or something similar, then you get complaints like the ones in this thread.

Doesn't seem like there's a right way to label freebies with some commercial rights reserved.

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