everchangingdeity opened this issue on Aug 16, 2002 ยท 51 posts
terminusnord posted Fri, 16 August 2002 at 11:03 AM
I agree that marketplace vendors should not be jerks about requiring credit. However.. there is comment above from Crisjon1950 that bothers me, and I'd like to set things straight, for the record: "I really think some merchants forget their place in the scheme of things. We pay someone for a product or service. That is the only thing they are entitled to." You're not buying the product outright. You are licensing use of the product. There is a difference, the marketplace merchant retains all copyright and control over further development or propagation of the product. The buyer is entitled to everything set forth in the license.txt, that's all, read it! "Merchants or artists can not tell us to give them credit. They can't forbid us from giving the product as a gift, etc. They don't have the right to poke into our computers or our personal business." From the license: "Buyer is hereby granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use all of the contents of the encapsulating archive file" I'm not sure what part of non-transferable crisjon1950 does not understand, but it's pretty clear to me that you cannot give someone a 'gift' of someone else's marketplace item, even if you intended not to keep a copy (yeah right). Gift = piracy. I'm not going to whine if people don't credit me, but if someone were to give away my stuff to all their R'osity buddies as a 'gift' or trade for other marketplace items, I would NOT be ok with that. -Adam