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

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:08:03AM -0800, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> 
> <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?

No. s/downloads it separately/downloads it separately from whatever
place the author provides the graphics/.

If we include the lists of such places in the tarball and/or on the
website is another question.

        Raimar

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