If someone wants to use my stuff for a relatively significant commercial use, I want to at the minimum be able to know about it. Ask for credit if there is space for credits (like if it's used in animation or a short film). Or if it's to be used somewhere as a fairly significant piece of a package, where sizeable sales are expected, then I may even ask for royalties.

Why? Because as sa part of offering the freebie, I want to promote my work. If whomever is creating a finished piece 'needs' in part my work to create the finished product, then I'd like to get proportional credit and exposure (within reason).

It's not meant to limit small time hobbyists from making a few psp tubes or preventing them from casing in a gift certificate they may win here and there. This is where 'giving back to the community' comes into play.

Also, I do architectural visualizations for work... should I release any freebies related to that, what I don't want to do is find myself in a position of helping my competitors (outside of poserdom), because my non commercial license is not limited to just poser or hobby 3D community.

Lot of people whom put freebies as links to their personal and for sale sites do that to give their site exposure, of course. That's just marketing. My freebies don't do this, but who knows, sometimes in the future they may. Right now, with mine, when you click on the download, you get a download, not an external link.

I've seen people whom adamantly claim they're giving back to the community and have no other motivations and shun the idea of self promotion and have their own webspace, but instead of giving you direct download, they still make you go through a few pages on their own website till you find the freebie. :woot:   Go figure.

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