Post by Dennis the menace on Aug 29, 2014 22:44:28 GMT -5
My opinion on EULAs as a scenery developer:
EULAS are written to protect a company's property from another company using it for financial gain. Its all about dollars, baby, and lawsuits among companies. As far as personal, individual purchasers go they could basically care less so long as you don't sell pirate copies or use the product for your personal financial gain. Addons only serve to create more interest in the product, and therefore more sales. And they really don't have the time nor resources to track ever single user who creates some object to share for FS. Even if they did, what will they gain? ...the hopeful chance for a few dollars and cents for all the cost of a prosecution and a hopeful conviction of a private individual? You also have to understand that most all companies seek to avoid bad PR, especially among their clientele. In other words, if you aren't gaining dollars from selling their property, they don't give a darn what you do to it. Go throw it in the trash can for all they care. Their commitment to and from you ends at the cash register when you bought FS. Everything else is just gravy.
As for me, I figure its mine. I bought it, I paid for it, I can do what the hell I please with it SO LONG as I don't make money off of it. If I so choose, I can create addon scenery, or AI, or retexture stock FS textures, or decompile stock FS objects and fix them to my liking, and then recompile them and share them online. I have done just that, in fact. Each and every one of you who uses classic scenery objects is using one of my decompiled, modified, then recompiled stock scenery objects. So long as you keep it free, its all yours to enjoy. Just don't pirate something and then SELL IT. That's where things cross the line. There is way too many people (and not just on here) obsessed on EULAs and pontificating theoretical issues and possibilities....kind of like medieval monks sitting around pontificating over just how many angels can dance upon the head of a pin.
Now go build some scenery, or create something and have fun. That's the whole purpose of FS!
EULAS are written to protect a company's property from another company using it for financial gain. Its all about dollars, baby, and lawsuits among companies. As far as personal, individual purchasers go they could basically care less so long as you don't sell pirate copies or use the product for your personal financial gain. Addons only serve to create more interest in the product, and therefore more sales. And they really don't have the time nor resources to track ever single user who creates some object to share for FS. Even if they did, what will they gain? ...the hopeful chance for a few dollars and cents for all the cost of a prosecution and a hopeful conviction of a private individual? You also have to understand that most all companies seek to avoid bad PR, especially among their clientele. In other words, if you aren't gaining dollars from selling their property, they don't give a darn what you do to it. Go throw it in the trash can for all they care. Their commitment to and from you ends at the cash register when you bought FS. Everything else is just gravy.
As for me, I figure its mine. I bought it, I paid for it, I can do what the hell I please with it SO LONG as I don't make money off of it. If I so choose, I can create addon scenery, or AI, or retexture stock FS textures, or decompile stock FS objects and fix them to my liking, and then recompile them and share them online. I have done just that, in fact. Each and every one of you who uses classic scenery objects is using one of my decompiled, modified, then recompiled stock scenery objects. So long as you keep it free, its all yours to enjoy. Just don't pirate something and then SELL IT. That's where things cross the line. There is way too many people (and not just on here) obsessed on EULAs and pontificating theoretical issues and possibilities....kind of like medieval monks sitting around pontificating over just how many angels can dance upon the head of a pin.
Now go build some scenery, or create something and have fun. That's the whole purpose of FS!