m-tokens | Minecraft themed icons
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - 02:26
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m-tokes is a set of 60+ hand drawn pixel art icons depicting minecraft mobs.
The tokens are available as a minecraft resource pack as well on the official website, where you can also see a preview of every available icon.
You are free to use and modify this asset for your personal or commercial projects without attribution, but I would appreciate it if you did not redistribute the set ‘as is,’ but only as an edited version or as part of a broader project. This is not mandatory
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As small as each of these are, I wouldn't normally be concerned with an overlap of Microsoft Intellectual Property, but most of these appear pixel-per-pixel identical to portions of the game's official skins. Again, whether that is enough to be legally problematic is debatable, but the second problem is that your extra stipulation "no redistribution unless part of a braoder project" is unenforcable and conflicts with CC0 (and all other licenses accepted on OGA). CC0 allows redistribution, even by themselves. Forbidding distribution like this makes them essentially legally unusable. I know the intent is to say "using it in your game is fine, just not outside a game", but it still creates a legal pitfall that makes it not work like that.Please let me know if you have any questions.EDIT: Fixed, thanks! :)
Hi,
not sure this deserved to be removed but I get your points.Still, while for obvious reasons the color schemes of the art is essentially the same as the official skins, I can assure you that there was no "copy-paste" involved. It's clear especially if you consider that my icons are 8x8 and all official textures are clearly larger.I understand that "no redistribution unless part of a braoder project or edit'' conflicts with CC0, I'm totally aware it's not something I can (nor want to) enforce, I'm just asking out of courtesy to those using the asset. Those are my reasons, but I understand that as owners of the website you probably want to err on the safe side so... up to you. If you decide this can in fact be published, just let me know. Cheers
It isn't removed. it's temporarily download-disabled. If the issues are resolved, the lock comes off. :)All official minecraft face skins are exactly 8x8. Copy-pasting is not required to constitute derivation. Replicating even an 8x8 pixel area with just 256 colors has a 16000:1 chance-against of happening by accident. Doing so for 10+ separate icons without using the original as a reference in any way is a 160,000:1 chance-against, or in other words; it meets the legal threshold of "substantial similarity" when determining if something may or may not be a derivative work of intellectual property.I'm not saying it definitely is a derivative. I am saying it has that potential. Which is why this was marked as having a "potential licensing issue".Asking people to voluntarily not distribute this pack outside of a project is totally acceptable. I must ask that the "voluntarily" part be made more apparent, though.EDIT: Fixed, thanks! :)
I corrected the part about the redistribution.
Not much I can do about the "potential licensing issue". It's definitely not a perfectly replicated pixel area for any of those though, I did not even take the colors from original textures with an eyedropper tool, it's all done visually (but the purpose obviously was to get as close as possible).
Thanks for explaining, I'll wait to see how this resolves.
Thanks for the extra information. Review done. Looks good! Thanks for sharing.