Anon: CC FAQ's Is_Creative_Commons_involved_in_digital_rights_management? points out the following part of by-sa 3.0 (4.a.):

You may not impose any effective technological measures on the Work that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the rights granted to that recipient under the terms of the License.

To make sure this is being followed, I'm afraid you have to read and understand the entire license text.

My guess is that in Unity3D you do not use the format you found on this website but convert files into another format by importing them. If this format can be distributed separately, you probably will have to give users access to the converted file format, as it is a derivate work of the original cc-by-sa work.

Probably not on topic: notice that modifying the uv texture of a model licensed under cc-by-sa also requires sharing the changed version, if the uv texture is also covered by cc-by-sa. Creating a uv texture independant from existing cc-by-sa uv textures for the model might allow you to use a non-cc-by-sa uv texture on a cc-by-sa model, but it also might be that a uv texture can be seen as a derivate work of the model it belongs to, which would require the self-made texture to be cc-by-sa as well.

IWIWALNWID (I wish I was a lawyer. No, wait, I don't!)

Note: we have been talking on IRC (#openoctave) about the situation some more

When I was still convinced, that the fundraiser was a scam, I had written an email to IndieGoGo (IGG), linking to this thread. By pointing their attention on the OpenOctave project, they decided to put it into "draft" mode, because it had a raffle in it and lotteries are forbidden by the terms of IGG.

After checking the search function, it seemed to me that IGG does not do much to stop the use of 'raffles' in IGG projects (unless their attention gets drawn to it?). I currently hope that they allow this fundraiser procect to finishand instead of taking down projects will instead change their documentation to make it more clear that lottery-like systems are prohibited.

meow! http://zahmekatzen.net/vocfi.html

The following illustrates why I thought that this fundraiser was a scam. I no more believe that to be a fact. (I do find the "donate! win prizes!" practice questionable and I don't think the project is realistic but I don't think that the developers are scam artists)

I took a look at the file list on github:

This is a fork of actively developed http://muse-sequencer.org (edit: I said it was a musescore fork before - my bad). The fork was started a year ago. No changes have been made since, except an edit of a build script half a year ago (I checked the git repo mentioned in the first post here. apparently they use a different one, my bad!).

Time to WHOIS:

openoctave.org and wendycherrett.com are registered using domainsbyproxy.com. Kinda suspicious. (edit: on the other hand that kind of privacy-sensitive behavior isn't uncommon in the foss scene)

Who are the people:

Wendy Charrett is supposedly ( http://www.wendycherrett.com/bio.html ) a film musician but no actual films are mentioned. The only external link besides openoctave is to tsiware.com, also registered by domainsbyproxy.com.

On one hand ther character named Wendy Charrette has >2000 followers but these might be simple 'thanks-follows' as the number of people she follows is nearly the same. (edit: I had written something about "naive" and "christians" but I didn't want to attack a relligion but simply say that I felt that the naivity/good-willing of people of a social group (a group like foss-fans or left- or right-wing-followers) were  abused for promoting a product - but again, I don't believe this any more to be the case)

More...:

https://github.com/danboid seems to be a user that has been created for the sole purpose of creating (fake?) tickets on the oom project.

They lure with "win stuff if you donate" which is weird and probably counts as illegal gambling. (Turns out indie go go does not approve of such practice. However many other projects did this on the website, which served as inspiratoin on how to design this fundraising.)

I'm not sure whether this is complete vapourware scam. But the simple fact that there has been hardly any development speaks for itself.

Note: this is not a discussion about religion or politics.

 

I started realizing the realness of the project after I briefly talked to thomasbonte and lasconic on #musescore who are under the impression that openoctave developers are real people but also believe that the roadmap of the project is 'optimistic' at least.

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