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qubodup
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 06:38
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=156244
this is neither concept art nor public domain, but instead of making a new thread i thought i put it here, as its kinda close in both points:
http://www.morguefile.com
photo stock database, basically all allowed except distribution or claiming rights on unaltered images. My second favorite next to http://www.imageafter.com
the search options seem to enable very quick finds, when you know what you are looking for. Having something similar for OGA would be just awesome ;)
morguefile isn't compatible with opengameart. I don't remember whether the license is non-free or just too confusing for me to understand. http://www.morguefile.com/license/morguefile/free_photo.html
http://gpl.imageafter.com/ is freely licensed
there is a "human-readable" version of the license under http://www.morguefile.com/license/morguefile/
I just quote it quickly:
morgueFile Free License
You are free:
Remix — to adapt the work.
Commercial — to use this work for commercial purposes.
Without Attribution — to use without attributing the original author.
Under the following conditions:
Stand alone basis — You can not sell, license, sublicense, rent, transfer or distribute this image exactly as it is without alteration.
Ownership — You may not claim ownership of this image in its original state.
Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the contributor.
Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.
Sounds good to me, but im just amateur in this legal stuff.
In case it is about the conditions for unaltered pictures, the images can still serve as textures, where I see the main purpose anyway.
I don't trust the human-readable version. the actual license, which is what counts, doesn't mention 'commercial' 'sale' 'pay' 'money' 'gain' 'profit' 'revenue' (except the last two words in a disclaimer). so I'm not sure there is a license at all. I think the last time I tried to read the license text it seemed more like a 'terms of using this site' text rather than 'terms of using content from our site'.
also: the human-readable version implies that selling the source images is prohibited, which is incompatible with all licenses on opengameart.
I hate these supposed free content sites that insist on using their own bogus licenses. Really, all you can do is contact either the people who run the site and get them to start using decent (i.e. CC) licenses, or contact the individual contributors whose work you want to use, and ask for their permission. If they're uploading to a sharing site, they're probably okay with letting you use them as long as you give credit.
I had a look at morgue art, I get the impression that if the image is modified its basically a free for all, so we couldn't use the raw source images in a game, but we could use a texture from there if it had been cropped and made tileable. they only seem to care about redistributing the work as is on a "stand alone basis". Sound right to you qubodup?