Addon/Mod Ownership - Q&A.

[Sanctuary]

Anything you create with our tools belongs to you entirely, you’re free to use it however you wish as long as you use it in a non-commercial way. You’re also free to allow someone else to use it or to refuse them permission to use it.
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As far as we are concerned nobody is entitled to use any addon/mod (or part thereof) without the explicit permission of the addon/mod creator. We will never support someone using addons without proper permission.

That's good to read.
/back to work

[Jahve]

http://ofp.gamezone.cz/_hosted/norfor/par for those concerned

[Soul_Assassin]

(Q) If the model and textures were created using software other than the one provided for free by BI and is later imported through O2, can the original source still be used for commercial purposes? (would love an official statement)

and

(Q) If other software is developed that can help create p3d files, for example nephilim stated that her mercs were made with an unnofficial tool, can then addons made with them be used commercially?

[ramboofp]

(Q) If the model and textures were created using software other than the one provided for free by BI and is later imported through O2, can the original source still be used for commercial purposes? (would love an official statement)

a official statement
and i restart working on my 3D model
EDIT: thx placebo to create this topic

[major gandhi]

Thx for answering those important questions placebo

[Jahve]

Anyone care to say if they are "Lawyer"

[Hit_Sqd_Ack]

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[Heatseeker]

Not an atempt to minimise the damage and cover up i hope , not the oficial statement i was expecting to read although its indeed very informative about who ownes what i was expecting to read more about the recent incident though.

Wouldnt surprise me if some agreement is done betwean all involved parties in order to compensate some of the "victims" while others might never know about their IP being used and exploited.

While not being directly involved i think taking and presenting measures that prevent this sort of exploitation should be seriously considered in the future. Especialy considering the licensed company already anounced interest in exploring other possibilities available in the BIS real virtuality 3d engine, of wich they have a license to do so if they wish.
("Lotsa nice tank models out there for our great new tank sim...look a new Iraq mod is out, how convenient $$$").

If the perpetrators would have kept quiet about their product they could have gotten away with their stunt, in any case we dont know if they did yet.

[shinRaiden]

Before you spammers get too carried away, you might want to consider that the reason they're using your stuff is because they like your stuff. The first rule of public relations is to not give bad news, but better news.

What you should be doing is a 2-part approach : ie make you stuff so they like it even more, while reminding them that you would be happy to do commercial work for the appropiate considerations. If you flame them, remember that they can flame you back, and harder, and you'll lose any hope of doing business with them.

[Heatseeker]

Before you spammers get too carried away, you might want to consider that the reason they're using your stuff is because they like your stuff. The first rule of public relations is to not give bad news, but better news.

What you should be doing is a 2-part approach : ie make you stuff so they like it even more, while reminding them that you would be happy to do commercial work for the appropiate considerations. If you flame them, remember that they can flame you back, and harder, and you'll lose any hope of doing business with them.

I thought they were using it because of several diferent reasons:
a) Reduced production costs. Why hire if they can take it for free and modify to fit their needs?
b) Time constraints, deadlines, etc, maybe they were given a short development time and didnt have nor were interested in hiring artists or purchase artwork to create the content from scratch.
c) Wrap a and b and conclude they might be a cheap company or that despite their wide range of products they might be in financial trouble.

Then you are bypassing the legality of the whole situation and assuming this company would hire all the people or purchase all the artwork that they have used, ***seems doubtfull from my chair ?

Side note:
Something unrelated but theres the interesting part that conects a certain number of simulation and other product companies for military/defense wathever, a license, a bit of comun sense and logic and the result/answer promisses to be somewhat interesting if ever unveiled, but i wont go into that here .