[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Betr: (PR#6932) Re: Re: Artistic polish

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6932 >

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > However don't get your hopes up for graphics. Last time we did that for
> > Civ2, it came out that most of the "public" tilesets used copyright tainted
> > graphics. Turns out most of the time the mod artists only change parts of
> > the graphics to have less work. Then they distribute copyrighted and
> > unique graphics publically without distinction. Making a complete tileset
> > is not easy and takes a lot of effort.
>
> Yes this may happen but for this case there is Plan B. We don't
> distribute the graphics but each user downloads it separately.

Excuse me? Who are you going to ask/encourage to break the law to host
this download?

Don't even think of going down this road. These kind of shortcuts do not
benefit us in the long run.

  - Per