- If I were to upload the 0 A.D. assets, I'd do it from a separate account, BUT
- Packaging and redistribution is work too, so it's okay to even make money by just uploading someone else's art here. I wouldn't do it, but it's okay. If you can make money by selling something that's available next door for free, good for you.
- People need to learn this is okay. Most people have been taught by the copyright/IP propaganda that redistribution or derivative work is a shady/weird practice, we need to unlearn this. Basically the only shady practice is falsely claiming autorship.
- Proposing a rule to ask for permission to reupload a work that allows redistribution by its license means dishonoring the license. The license explicitly grants a right to the users but you'd be putting a restriction in its place that is anti-free/open culture. The site would then basically have to be renamed to SemiOpenGameArt or something.
I don't get this - that's what CC licenses are for - so that you do not have to ask for permission for certain uses, including redistribution. I can't see anything rude or disrespectful. If anything, it helps put the artwork to use, supports creativity etc. That's the whole point of these licenses.
Am I going to get in trouble on this site if I post 0 A.D. resources without asking? I think I am going to do it, just out of principle.
EDIT: I can see someone posted the textures already (https://opengameart.org/content/0-ad-textures) - that's good. I can't see the models though, would be nice to have them accessible, they'd be tremendously useful.
OMG, this is awesome, how come I haven't found this earlier? Not many comments either.
I think the submission could be improved by:
a) A complete preview - the archive contains much more than what's shown.
b) Sprites separated into individual png files with transpareny to be ready to be used out of the box. A lot of people reject good art if they can't use it straight away.
c) Maybe even more tags - I can see a lot of stuff in the archive that can't be found because it's not in tags nor in previews. E.g. cats, birds, helmets, ...
I think I'll do more, I guess upscaling at least all the spell icons could provide a very useful complete icon set. I'll probably also try bigger upscale, but that would likely require much more work as many small details would have to be added to make a real use of the resolution. The monsters would be worth it though, they're really great work of art.
Just a few additional points:
- If I were to upload the 0 A.D. assets, I'd do it from a separate account, BUT
- Packaging and redistribution is work too, so it's okay to even make money by just uploading someone else's art here. I wouldn't do it, but it's okay. If you can make money by selling something that's available next door for free, good for you.
- People need to learn this is okay. Most people have been taught by the copyright/IP propaganda that redistribution or derivative work is a shady/weird practice, we need to unlearn this. Basically the only shady practice is falsely claiming autorship.
- Proposing a rule to ask for permission to reupload a work that allows redistribution by its license means dishonoring the license. The license explicitly grants a right to the users but you'd be putting a restriction in its place that is anti-free/open culture. The site would then basically have to be renamed to SemiOpenGameArt or something.
I don't get this - that's what CC licenses are for - so that you do not have to ask for permission for certain uses, including redistribution. I can't see anything rude or disrespectful. If anything, it helps put the artwork to use, supports creativity etc. That's the whole point of these licenses.
Am I going to get in trouble on this site if I post 0 A.D. resources without asking? I think I am going to do it, just out of principle.
EDIT: I can see someone posted the textures already (https://opengameart.org/content/0-ad-textures) - that's good. I can't see the models though, would be nice to have them accessible, they'd be tremendously useful.
Very awesome CC0 posts, thank you :)
Very nice, I just noticed the shuttle has wrong transparency.
Someone should use this to make an Advance Wars clone!
OMG, this is awesome, how come I haven't found this earlier? Not many comments either.
I think the submission could be improved by:
a) A complete preview - the archive contains much more than what's shown.
b) Sprites separated into individual png files with transpareny to be ready to be used out of the box. A lot of people reject good art if they can't use it straight away.
c) Maybe even more tags - I can see a lot of stuff in the archive that can't be found because it's not in tags nor in previews. E.g. cats, birds, helmets, ...
Thank you for liberating your work :)
@Boom Shaka: I definitely aggree it's better to focus on complete sets. With this post I wanted to
1. Test what it looks like.
2. Hopefully start a series of posts with more upscales, either by me or others, which will eventually together make the whole collection.
3. Encourage any other kind of remixing of any other free art.
@MedicineStorm: Oh that's great, but these posts are CC-BY, I'd like to stick to CC0 for my posts. At least it's a good reference.
I think I'll do more, I guess upscaling at least all the spell icons could provide a very useful complete icon set. I'll probably also try bigger upscale, but that would likely require much more work as many small details would have to be added to make a real use of the resolution. The monsters would be worth it though, they're really great work of art.
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