Mostly, it's difficult to come up with new ideas for a challenge every week, so maybe we can use this thread to come up with some ideas. If you think of anything, post it here, and (pending approval by yours truly) I'll add it to the contest queue.
Sorry about that. The spam filter is funny about forum posts. Sometimes it just makes them invisible on the main forum without notifying me or marking them as unpublished, which means I don't see them.
Just wanted to say I really like these. Welcome to OGA. :)
Also, just a note about the attribution message. OGA automatically generates an art credit file, so the text of your attribution message is included in it verbatim. You might want to change it to something like:
Hi. I'm the guy who thinks he know what he's talking about but isn't sure.
I'm a developer, not a lawyer. I'm not qualified to give legal advice, and as much as I hate having to put disclaimers on everything, I have to make it absolutely clear to people that license compliance is ultimately their own responsibility.
If you have specific questions about a license, please feel free to explain here what it is you want to do, and try my best to help. Without knowing your specific situation, the absolute best advice I can give you is to clarify with the individual artists what you are and are not allowed to do. If you don't think a particular artist would want you to do something with their art, respect their wishes and don't do it. That's the easiest way to stay out of legal trouble.
If surt answers you, you have it in writing, which means that you have documented proof. You could save the web page if you're concerned (and yes, that can be faked, but then so can a license file, so it's no different from a standard license in that respect).
I know surt, and he wouldn't pull that kind of thing on anyone. Furthermore, while license compliance and copyright enforcement are entirely the responsibility of the users and the artists respectively, if asked, I'll always do my best to provide evidence of what really happened, and that includes going through old backups if comments or art have been deleted (although in the years this site has been around, I've never been aware of any licensing disputes going that far). Regardless, clarifications in writing that grant additional rights over the original license legally supersede the license, so if surt says you have permission to use his art without releasing your code, then you have legal standing to do so.
Anyway, OGA's stance on licensing is that it's entirely up to the artist, so it's not my place as the guy who runs this site to ask surt to do anything other than clarify his intentions (and he doesn't have to do that if he doesn't want to, although I don't see why he'd have a problem).
It would be better to ask the artist to clarify whether he is okay with his art being used without the entire source code being released.
Note that the general consensus is that it's okay to use CC-BY-SA art without releasing source code (and that's my own understanding of the license now), but I'm not aware that a lawyer has ever weighed in on it, and I'm not one myself. All that being said, I'd encourage you to respect the artist's wishes about it, even if you're not contractually bound to do so.
The best way might be just to do both, with the theme first. Ideally, something like this
Upbeat Sci-Fi - "Malloga Ballinga" by professorlamp.wav
That being said, naming files like that is pretty tedious, so maybe it's something OGA could do on our end. How would people feel if OGA did a little bit of filename munging?
Yeah, we need to bring those back.
Mostly, it's difficult to come up with new ideas for a challenge every week, so maybe we can use this thread to come up with some ideas. If you think of anything, post it here, and (pending approval by yours truly) I'll add it to the contest queue.
I'll look into this. I'm not preventing deletions of collections for nefarious purposes - it's just an oversight on my part. Sorry for the trouble.
Sorry about that. The spam filter is funny about forum posts. Sometimes it just makes them invisible on the main forum without notifying me or marking them as unpublished, which means I don't see them.
Your post is live now.
Just wanted to say I really like these. Welcome to OGA. :)
Also, just a note about the attribution message. OGA automatically generates an art credit file, so the text of your attribution message is included in it verbatim. You might want to change it to something like:
"Jimmy Jump back by http://1001.com" (or whatever)
Note that this is a suggestion, and you don't have to change it if you don't want to.
Thanks again for this awesome art pack! :)
Bart
That's pretty sweet. I'd love to see someone build this into a 3d model. :)
Hi. I'm the guy who thinks he know what he's talking about but isn't sure.
I'm a developer, not a lawyer. I'm not qualified to give legal advice, and as much as I hate having to put disclaimers on everything, I have to make it absolutely clear to people that license compliance is ultimately their own responsibility.
If you have specific questions about a license, please feel free to explain here what it is you want to do, and try my best to help. Without knowing your specific situation, the absolute best advice I can give you is to clarify with the individual artists what you are and are not allowed to do. If you don't think a particular artist would want you to do something with their art, respect their wishes and don't do it. That's the easiest way to stay out of legal trouble.
If surt answers you, you have it in writing, which means that you have documented proof. You could save the web page if you're concerned (and yes, that can be faked, but then so can a license file, so it's no different from a standard license in that respect).
I know surt, and he wouldn't pull that kind of thing on anyone. Furthermore, while license compliance and copyright enforcement are entirely the responsibility of the users and the artists respectively, if asked, I'll always do my best to provide evidence of what really happened, and that includes going through old backups if comments or art have been deleted (although in the years this site has been around, I've never been aware of any licensing disputes going that far). Regardless, clarifications in writing that grant additional rights over the original license legally supersede the license, so if surt says you have permission to use his art without releasing your code, then you have legal standing to do so.
Anyway, OGA's stance on licensing is that it's entirely up to the artist, so it's not my place as the guy who runs this site to ask surt to do anything other than clarify his intentions (and he doesn't have to do that if he doesn't want to, although I don't see why he'd have a problem).
I look forward to seeing your pixel art. :)
It would be better to ask the artist to clarify whether he is okay with his art being used without the entire source code being released.
Note that the general consensus is that it's okay to use CC-BY-SA art without releasing source code (and that's my own understanding of the license now), but I'm not aware that a lawyer has ever weighed in on it, and I'm not one myself. All that being said, I'd encourage you to respect the artist's wishes about it, even if you're not contractually bound to do so.
@surt: What's your take on this?
The best way might be just to do both, with the theme first. Ideally, something like this
Upbeat Sci-Fi - "Malloga Ballinga" by professorlamp.wav
That being said, naming files like that is pretty tedious, so maybe it's something OGA could do on our end. How would people feel if OGA did a little bit of filename munging?
So, turns out my filter is getting some false negatives that I can't quite figure out at the moment, but it's time to stop working on it for the day.
At least, the 300 or so accounts that did remain in the approval queue were all legit except for one, so it was a pretty solid heuristic.
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