Phantast opened this issue on Dec 02, 2003 ยท 6 posts
Phantast posted Tue, 02 December 2003 at 12:45 PM
I was looking through the freestuff collection yesterday and I was struck how many items are categorised as "non-commercial only". Checking some items against the readme files, I find this restriction is actually not intended by the author. Clearly, a lot of people submitting stuff to the site simply don't notice that the default setting is "non-commercial only". This means that the tag as it appears in the freestuff pages now is unreliable. For "unreliable" also read "useless". It takes a certain sort of mind to object actively to someone profiting in any way from a render that features their texture or prop tucked away in a corner (though I personally can't imagine what that mind can be like). If someone really takes such an objection, then they should have to declare it by clicking a "non-commercial only" option. The default should be "all uses", because a lot of people will just take the default whatever. And I cannot believe that most contributors really care to restrict how their item is used.