Maintaining absolute GPL bundle-ability (in other words, staying Debian and FSF-safe)
Giving people the freedom to set whatever conditions they want, provided #1 is true
Keeping the licensing choices reasonably simple
Obviously #1 is a non-issue for this particular question, since the licenses you're listing are all "safe". The problem, really, is the balance between allowing a large number of licenses and keeping things simple for the user. It's one thing if you're a hardcore Free Software Licensing Geek, but it's quite another if you're a regular user who'd just like to use (or donate) some art and have a clear understanding of the conditions.
To this end, I'd like to propose a standard that we can use in order to determine whether a license should be added. The license (obviously) must satisfy our requirement that the content can be bundled with the GPL. It must also satisfy one of these two conditions:
The license offers conditions that are different in a meaningful way from all of the other licenses we already allow, or
There is a substantial body of high quality content which we would not be able to otherwise add to the site (though contacting the author and convincing them to re-license the content, for instance)
In the latter case, I would suggest that, in order to avoid confusion, the additional license be available to site editors only.
This really brings up the need for the simplified licensing options, which I've been avoiding because it's going to be fairly hard to implement. I should probably get started on that.
As usual, I'm looking for any comments people could provide. Even if you don't want to add any artistic criticism, I'd also be interested to know what people would like me to add to it next.
I like this one a lot. Clearly a lot of work was put into it. On the technical side, the shading and dithering make it really obvious that the grey material is chain mail and the red material is cloth. All in all, a very solid entry.
Steampunk Gentleman
Creativity: 43 Execution: 43 Effort: 32
This is another excellent entry with a lot of really useful pieces, but I have to knock some points off of Effort for the incomplete suit. Kudos, though, on dividing this up into multiple independant parts.
Starsteel Barbarian Armor/Claws
Creativity: 40 Execution: 45 Effort: 39
This is definitely a fun one. The scar and the beard make him look rugged and fierce -- not the kind of guy you'd want to pick a fight with. Also, he comes with his own weapons, which is cool.
Male Armor and Hair
Creativity: 38 Execution: 38 Effort: 45
This is a cool submission, but I have to knock off a few points for execution -- something bothers me about the way the armor is shaded. That said, it's quite usable, and the hair is excellent. A very good submission overall.
Top Hat - Lolhat
Creativity: 35 Execution: 25 Effort: 20
This is a fun entry, but it's a lot smaller than the rest, and it needs a little more in terms of shading. Still, I can't help but like it.
Turnip Armor
Creativity: 50 Execution: 45 Effort: 10
This is hilarious. Unfortunately it's not eligible to win because it doesn't cover all of the frames. Someday it would be pretty cool if someone would pick this up and finish it.
...people do it anyway. Unfortunately, in order for this archive to grow, we had to accept the fact that people frequently GPL their art, even if it's not an entirely appropriate license for it.
My understanding is that if you use GPLed art, you have to open your source code. GPLed code can be distributed with *art* that isn't GPLed, but I'm fairly certain, given the requirements of the GPL and source code, that GPLed art must be distributed with GPLed code.
Just a quick clarification:
* Anything based on the base sprite(s) is fine. There are no restrictions. You can even edit the base sprite. Don't worry too much about compatibility with other modifications, as long as you have a good idea.
* Editing or adding frames to the base sprite is fine.
* Multiple modifications in one file are fine too. You can also enter the contest multiple times, but you can only win one prize total.
I should have marked this as solved.
There are three issues at play here. These are:
Obviously #1 is a non-issue for this particular question, since the licenses you're listing are all "safe". The problem, really, is the balance between allowing a large number of licenses and keeping things simple for the user. It's one thing if you're a hardcore Free Software Licensing Geek, but it's quite another if you're a regular user who'd just like to use (or donate) some art and have a clear understanding of the conditions.
To this end, I'd like to propose a standard that we can use in order to determine whether a license should be added. The license (obviously) must satisfy our requirement that the content can be bundled with the GPL. It must also satisfy one of these two conditions:
In the latter case, I would suggest that, in order to avoid confusion, the additional license be available to site editors only.
This really brings up the need for the simplified licensing options, which I've been avoiding because it's going to be fairly hard to implement. I should probably get started on that.
Bart
As usual, I'm looking for any comments people could provide. Even if you don't want to add any artistic criticism, I'd also be interested to know what people would like me to add to it next.
Thanks!
Bart
I'm not 100% certain about how to fix this, but I'll look into it.
Bart
Prod me about this on Monday. I'll see if I can make it happen.
Brigand Armor
Creativity: 38 Execution: 45 Effort: 41
I like this one a lot. Clearly a lot of work was put into it. On the technical side, the shading and dithering make it really obvious that the grey material is chain mail and the red material is cloth. All in all, a very solid entry.
Steampunk Gentleman
Creativity: 43 Execution: 43 Effort: 32
This is another excellent entry with a lot of really useful pieces, but I have to knock some points off of Effort for the incomplete suit. Kudos, though, on dividing this up into multiple independant parts.
Starsteel Barbarian Armor/Claws
Creativity: 40 Execution: 45 Effort: 39
This is definitely a fun one. The scar and the beard make him look rugged and fierce -- not the kind of guy you'd want to pick a fight with. Also, he comes with his own weapons, which is cool.
Male Armor and Hair
Creativity: 38 Execution: 38 Effort: 45
This is a cool submission, but I have to knock off a few points for execution -- something bothers me about the way the armor is shaded. That said, it's quite usable, and the hair is excellent. A very good submission overall.
Top Hat - Lolhat
Creativity: 35 Execution: 25 Effort: 20
This is a fun entry, but it's a lot smaller than the rest, and it needs a little more in terms of shading. Still, I can't help but like it.
Turnip Armor
Creativity: 50 Execution: 45 Effort: 10
This is hilarious. Unfortunately it's not eligible to win because it doesn't cover all of the frames. Someday it would be pretty cool if someone would pick this up and finish it.
I'll work on this.
...people do it anyway. Unfortunately, in order for this archive to grow, we had to accept the fact that people frequently GPL their art, even if it's not an entirely appropriate license for it.
My understanding is that if you use GPLed art, you have to open your source code. GPLed code can be distributed with *art* that isn't GPLed, but I'm fairly certain, given the requirements of the GPL and source code, that GPLed art must be distributed with GPLed code.
Just a quick clarification:
* Anything based on the base sprite(s) is fine. There are no restrictions. You can even edit the base sprite. Don't worry too much about compatibility with other modifications, as long as you have a good idea.
* Editing or adding frames to the base sprite is fine.
* Multiple modifications in one file are fine too. You can also enter the contest multiple times, but you can only win one prize total.
Bart
Good catch. This issue has been fixed. :)
Bart
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