Absolutely, and here's why: this site aims to be a 100% trustworthy source for art as far as licenses go.
If the original artist has a problem with your upload, they would also have a problem with everyone who downloads and uses it. If we let that happen, our users could no longer trust the licenses shown.
There are other places to host "free" art that is less strict about licenses. But OpenGameArt is the place to go when CC licenses matter.
Thanks for this awesomely detailed feedback! The contributors that work on the Flare android port will find this very useful.
I admit that when I started Flare, I only had Keyboard + Mouse gameplay in mind. These contributors have had a tricky task to make all of that work on mobile.
Is there art you want to use where GPL is the only license offered? If an upload here on OpenGameArt shows multiple licenses, you can accept the terms of any one license shown. You don't have to fulfill every license shown.
Usually GPL art comes from GPL games, and is safest to put into other GPL games. GPL is a code license, not an art license, so there aren't clear answers in other situations.
If you treat it similarly to CC-SA, you will probably be okay. If in doubt, especially if doing something commercial or on a large scale, ask the original artist.
You may want to include art sources (e.g. original textures, or gimp/blender files, or unmixed audio tracks) to get closer to the spirit of the GPL.
Acorn, the tutorial link? It goes to my server. The page is a really plain HTML, the only script in it is Google Analytics. Not sure what Avast is warning about.
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
for any purpose, even commercially.
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
The Search settings page claims the site is 99% indexed, with only 3 items waiting to be indexed. (I don't believe it).
There is a "re-index site" button. Here's the warning it gives:
The search index is not cleared but systematically updated to reflect the new settings. Searching will continue to work but new content won't be indexed until all existing content has been re-indexed. This action cannot be undone.
I did not press the button (yet). I left a message for BartK on IRC to see what he thinks.
> Who made that site? Certainly not men.
Now you're just a troll. Bullshit masculinity is not welcome.
> Goodbye OGA!
I'll go ahead and lock your account and remove your blog link so we don't send you more traffic.
Absolutely, and here's why: this site aims to be a 100% trustworthy source for art as far as licenses go.
If the original artist has a problem with your upload, they would also have a problem with everyone who downloads and uses it. If we let that happen, our users could no longer trust the licenses shown.
There are other places to host "free" art that is less strict about licenses. But OpenGameArt is the place to go when CC licenses matter.
Thanks for this awesomely detailed feedback! The contributors that work on the Flare android port will find this very useful.
I admit that when I started Flare, I only had Keyboard + Mouse gameplay in mind. These contributors have had a tricky task to make all of that work on mobile.
Is there art you want to use where GPL is the only license offered? If an upload here on OpenGameArt shows multiple licenses, you can accept the terms of any one license shown. You don't have to fulfill every license shown.
Usually GPL art comes from GPL games, and is safest to put into other GPL games. GPL is a code license, not an art license, so there aren't clear answers in other situations.
If you treat it similarly to CC-SA, you will probably be okay. If in doubt, especially if doing something commercial or on a large scale, ask the original artist.
You may want to include art sources (e.g. original textures, or gimp/blender files, or unmixed audio tracks) to get closer to the spirit of the GPL.
GGolem, the blend file may have previous licensing info. The OGA entry is correct, I've released these assets under CC0.
Acorn, the tutorial link? It goes to my server. The page is a really plain HTML, the only script in it is Google Analytics. Not sure what Avast is warning about.
Lordor77: see the sidebar, the license is CC-BY 3.0.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
PROWNE, these are awesome! The language coverage for the font is pretty impressive already.
I have access to the Drupal admin pages.
The Search settings page claims the site is 99% indexed, with only 3 items waiting to be indexed. (I don't believe it).
There is a "re-index site" button. Here's the warning it gives:
I did not press the button (yet). I left a message for BartK on IRC to see what he thinks.
usr_share: I haven't tried that, but it sounds interesting! I'll keep that in mind if I ever polish up an app version of one of my games.
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