i don't know why freestuff donators are so unhappy here. there are loads of threads with thankyous and youkeepthiscommunityalives and i took part in not few of them. and, as someone said, in 99,999 % permission is given, then what is the point in asking? as soon as someone announce that he's giving something free in freestuff there are at least 10 people (depending on quality of the item) who respond directly and thank him/her for it. snowsultan is the only one who gave a reason why some of his stuff are only for non commercial use, and i understand it and except it. the trouble is that commercial and and non commercial is not that easy to distinguish. if you do a picture with a brand new free-but-only-for-nc-work texture and show it in your gallery here, then lucas arts sees this and hire you because that was such a great picture, then you definitely made money with it. now, i know that lucas art people seldomly look in renderosity's gallery, but that was just an example :). my point is that self-promotion is also commercial! hauksdottir: "If you are going to be paid for your work, you had best create everything in that rendered image or buy the usage rights for items created by others." if you make a denim texture for a jeans and scan it from the original jeans, are aou making a copyright infringement, because those jeans have their specific design? following your argumentation, you do! you are making an image of something that already exists, same as an (rendered) image of a 3d-object. hauksdottir: "So, folks, GROW UP! You can't just take, take, take, take everything you want, and then bitch, whine, moan, and yammer while refusing to respect the rights of the artist who is willing to share for the joy of sharing." if you are really doing it for the joy of sharing, then what's the problem? if you see that download count has reached the thousands, then be joyfull! or do you want as many "thank yous"?