Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Antonia - Opinions?

odf opened this issue on Oct 27, 2008 · 13933 posts


odf posted Wed, 18 March 2009 at 6:48 AM

Maybe this is a good opportunity to talk about licensing. It's great to see people make free content for Antonia. But there are different degrees of free. So you need to decide which kind license to put your content under. D'oh, you say. You already knew that. But what I'd like to remind you of is that the figure itself will be under the Creative Commons Attribution License. What that means, in particular, is that it can not only be redistributed, but also sold without any obligation to pay me or phantom3D anything. Not everyone who contributes to the project will want that kind of thing.

So here's the thing: if you're happy to publish your product under the CCAL, we can put it in the official Antonia package without thinking twice. If you would restrict redistribution or commercial use, we should probably put it in a different package to avoid confusion. But of course, once I've set up a web site, I'll be happy to host contributed content on there that uses different licensing. I'm not going to accept any retail content though, because I can't be bothered to descend into the purgatory that is online payment processing. I hope you understand.

I'm just putting this out here for now so you can think about it before you send me your stuff. I'll definitely make sure though that I won't make anything public unless I understand what licensing the creator has in mind.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.