Yes, of course.
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From how I see it, an artist is allowed to own their art. There is no legal binding contract here saying we have the rights to the art just because they posted it as F2U. If the issue is removing them entirely as that would erase history, a middle-ish ground would be creating a âhistorical archiveâ folder with the de-listed items and putting the burden of contacting the artist on whoever wants to use it.
Edit: Regarding Hextator, thatâs not necessarily art, but a tool. Honestly itâs kind of an awkward area of ethical usage but any forks should have been free game.
honestly I think weâre happy to call this the actual staff decision
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So, if someone just come here and post some unique animations and stuff and days later the same guy came here and say itâs not to use it anymore, than klok will have to delete everything and lost due to time?
Iâm not sure with this is fair, even if this is the work of someone, their first decision was to be used and not to be forbidden. Unless the guy has some good reason, but just because he/she wants itâs not a good one. I just donât want to see tons of contents disappearing of the repo to never ever going to be free again.
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As far as weâre concerned, yes. At the end of the day, whether or not if you get to use something that someone else made is irrelevant. They donât need a reason, they do not owe an explanation.
This also⌠Has not happened. Calm down.
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My heart begun racing :v, As a person who loves history, Iâm completely afraid of these sorts of things.
iâm not going to bother getting into a moralistic argument about âhistoryâ or âarchivalâ, or whatever
The precise staff position is this: If you use assets in a fan project that is hosted on this website, and the creator of those assets comes back to this website to ask you to stop using those assets, we will not allow you to continue hosting that project on this website until those assets are removed. This applies regardless of whether those assets are released as F2E or F2U in this repo, or in general.
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Iâm not reading this, how can you support such craziness. They canât do that with their if these assets are creative commons or public domains, ITâS THE LAW. Once they are here in the repo, and itâs considered as F2E/F2U, it means that they now are a public domain content, in short: they cannot own it anymore!
A_Dancer said it didnât happen, but if someday this happens, then this content will be forever gone! Unless they have a good reason as I saw few months ago, they guy didnât want the content he had his reason, but he didnât come back and just said: I donât want it to be there anymore, and itâs just that.
Iâve made my position clear enough, so this will be my last response on the subject in this thread. Anyone with further questions can direct it to the staff PM.
Firstly, as a strictly legal matter, Creative Commons is not a law but a licensing agreement, and that agreement is between the creator and the user of the work. Fire Emblem Universe is neither the executor nor the arbitrator of this contract, and we have no obligation to be equally permissive as those agreements. If youâre unable to abide by this, youâre welcome to host and discuss your projects off-site.
Secondly, âI release this as F2Uâ is not a legally binding declaration. If the repo intends for all submissions to be licensed as such, there should be a clear notice in both the repo itself and the submission thread containing both the precise license text or possibly a license short-hand such as CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-SA-NC, or so on. For example, merely stating âthis is creative commonsâ admits âCC-BY-NDâ, which does not allow derivative works entirely.
EDIT:
As a matter of operational usage, I donât control what gets put into this repo with what labels, and Iâm not about to go scouring the internet to check that every asset is properly labeled with the original creatorâs current intent. Iâve already said that it doesnât matter to me if assets are saved for archival purposes, so itâs up to the repository maintainers on whether they want to respect authors being fickle off-site.
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why should peopleâs be able to use a creatorâs work, if the creator doesnât want it publicly available anymore? why not just use any non-F2U resource at that point? in both scenarios, the creator doesnt want you using their work, so whats the difference? also some laws suck lmao
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Oh yeah, I just noticed that my Adventurer map sprites are currently named âMarksman (M/F) Staff
{ArcherBias}.â Is it ok if instead they were called something like âNura Marksman/FE14 Adventurer (M/F) {ArcherBias}â instead, mostly because âStaffâ implies that the map sprite is holding a staff, and itâs uh, not.
I have no idea why I named them Staff. They donât look at all like they have staves. So weird.
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Lmao youre fine i literally only just noticed myself
reminder: this is the thread to post non-content regarding the repository
@Alice @DATonDemand
right I guessed so when i saw my comment got removed, apologies
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I love the Castlevania inclusion! Iâm also VERY excited for more AW animations. As a side note, have anyone seen any mech-like battle animations or similar?
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For Jayâs prototype Roy, I feel like the colors are not quite right. The screenshot seems to use skin colors for the gold trim, and has more blue tones
The colours are very messed up on the photo. Look at the other side with Eliwood.
Plus, you can always recolour it.
error for this download link (sry bout the format):
https://github.com/Klokinator/FE-Repo/tree/main/Battle%20Animations/Infantry%20-%20(Swd)%20Thieves,%20Rogues,%20Assassins/%5BThief-Base%5D%20%5BM%5D%20Matthew%20Repal%20by%20Pikmin%20%2BKnife%20+Bow
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This is why this happens. Itâs obnoxious, but youâll notice that last + in that URL hasnât been replaced with %2B like other offending characters. Try it out in DownGit after making the replacement manually and see if it works then!