Interested in my Mappack?
in general posters of intellectual property ought to put creative commons info along with the work.
hm msleeper do you think there would be an easy way to easily allow somebody to enter their creative commons prefs whenever they upload anything? I've seen that on sites like flickr.
http://www.creativecommons.org/license
that way, if somebody didn't mind having their map in a map pack they could include a non commercial, non modify, worldwide license, for example...
and if somebody wants to make a map pack that is for sale, they will need to contact the mapper for royalty info...
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If you're looking for some way to have that posted on the DLDB, I would imagine that is somewhat unnecessary. Just include a license.txt with the map that specifies the type of license you want to release it under.
Just tell me that some bozo didnt just go grab my friggin' WIP map and stick it in some mappack somewhere. When my map is ready for distrubution, I WILL DISTRIBUTE IT. And to do so as a WIP is not a fair representation of my work, at the very least.
When I DO release my map, its for public consumption and I expect I will download it to multiple sites. . . but I am going to be seriously pissed if somebody sticks it in a mappack without getting my permission. And I will then track down every site that has it on it and bother them until they take if off, and will gladly encourage other folks in the pack to do the same.
Its not that I really dont want it distributed; heck, I'd almost certainly say yes IF ASKED. Its the sheer arrogance of somebody just thinking they can gather up other work and do who knows what with it that pisses me off. For all I know you'll charge money for the whole collection. (which you will almost certainly say is ridiculous, but the fact is I WOULDNT KNOW if you did).
I am all for people adding some distribution-related text to the zipped download stating their wishes in regards to distribution. (Adding it to the website doesnt help much IMO, since many other websites wont have that feature). If such distrubution test is NOT present though, then the mapper should be asked before addition.
The bottom line: MapPackers who dont get permission from mappers to add their map to the pack may not be respecting the wishes of the mappers (ie the people who invested all the hard work). That is a bad ethics for a person to have, and a bad practice for a website to support.
When I DO release my map, its for public consumption and I expect I will download it to multiple sites. . . but I am going to be seriously pissed if somebody sticks it in a mappack without getting my permission. And I will then track down every site that has it on it and bother them until they take if off, and will gladly encourage other folks in the pack to do the same.
Its not that I really dont want it distributed; heck, I'd almost certainly say yes IF ASKED. Its the sheer arrogance of somebody just thinking they can gather up other work and do who knows what with it that pisses me off. For all I know you'll charge money for the whole collection. (which you will almost certainly say is ridiculous, but the fact is I WOULDNT KNOW if you did).
I am all for people adding some distribution-related text to the zipped download stating their wishes in regards to distribution. (Adding it to the website doesnt help much IMO, since many other websites wont have that feature). If such distrubution test is NOT present though, then the mapper should be asked before addition.
The bottom line: MapPackers who dont get permission from mappers to add their map to the pack may not be respecting the wishes of the mappers (ie the people who invested all the hard work). That is a bad ethics for a person to have, and a bad practice for a website to support.
Actually, thinking about it I can't agree more. Especially as this has already happend to me. The pack compiler posted a link and said YAY MY MAP PACK IS OUT.... I downloaded it to find it contained my map..... which was HUGHELY WIP and not ready for release.... So I asked him nicely to remove it, and a few weeks later after someone else had sent him multiple emails asking him to remove their map aswell both were still in it. so after then we flamed his ass down to the ground untill he took the maps out.
Seems to me, map packs wouldn't be really needed if people weren't so damned lazy.
I don't even download maps from servers on other mods (For instance: Garry's Mod). I look at a server, see what map it's on (That I don't have) or trying to download, disconnect, find it online (Google is your friend!) and get it at not only a much faster speed, but at a premium to the server owner who is probably paying more upfront costs to run a server than someone running a website.