Forum: Freestuff


Subject: Keeping Track of Usage Rights

basicwiz opened this issue on Apr 18, 2010 · 7 posts


moriador posted Sat, 08 May 2010 at 7:16 PM

I wish that people who created items with a commercial usage restriction would put their license in something other than a "license.txt" that will certainly be overwritten by the next thing to be installed.

That being said, it's still close to impossible to keep track of things, so I generally don't download stuff with a commercial usage restriction, except by accident.

I don't know why creators bother with the restriction. It's not as though Disney is going to come along and take their freebie V4 latex boots and make a $billion with them.

If the primary purpose of most freebie distributors is to introduce their products to the market, then it seems by eliminating the commercial use market, they're cutting out the people with the biggest budgets. But oh well. It's their choice. I just don't have any use for restricted items.


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