Is it legal?

[isaiahk9]

Is it legal to post a thread on compsci.ca selling sprites (made by me) for bits and/or aid?

[Clayton]

Anything you post on CompSci.ca is Creative Commons, ergo, it's free.

[Tony]

I meant to get back to your PM, but I wanted to get a hold of Dan first..

Personally I think that if you don't refer to it as being "sold" (since there are no monetary transactions involved), and as long as you limit it to a thread and don't spam in regards to promoting this "trade", then it should be fine.

As Clayton points out though, forum posts are CC licensed by default (so you might want to PM the sprites).

[isaiahk9]

thanx!

[md]

Given the reality that bits are entirely useless... it seems to me a better plan is to give away the sprites, and ask for aid if/when required.

I would also recommend hosting the sprites else-where and linking to them - with the notice that they are under a non-commercial licence (CC-non-com, LGLP, etc.) if you do not wish for others to profit from your work without paying you for yours.

Incidentally... I can provide such hosting at the cost of a non-exclusive rights to use the work however I see fit in my own projects and any I may be associated with presently and in the future. Small price and all that

[isaiahk9]

md -
I've been OKed to some sort of situation with the sprites being offered.
And if you would want my sprites (I think that's what you were getting at in the last sentence), then I would give them to you. Just go to
http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?p=161100&no=1#161100
to see how you could get them all. To let you know, if I really don't see any question/situation where I could use your talents for partB of the benefits for me, then I would probably just give them to you.

[Aziz]

Just a question then, if I post my source code in a thread, but it has a copyright statement on it with the appropriate license, say creative commons attribution, share alike non-commercial, that license would still apply, right?

[Tony]

From current compsci's ToU

Quote:

By uploading, submitting or otherwise disclosing or distributing Content of any kind at or on the Site or otherwise through the Services, unless source quoted, you represent and warrant that you own all rights in the Content and you agree that the Content will be subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License, available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/legalcode.en

Well first of all it's _almost_ the same. Other than "attribution" and "canadian version" parts.

Though the point is that you quote the source (which could be yourself), then the quoted source's license takes precedence.

[md]

Actually the ToU are a bit unclear as "unless source quoted" is not at all clear in meaning.

My reading is that the ToU license would take precedence over any code you post - which incidentally doesn't work for GPL'd code that might be posted.

The ToU should really read

Quote:

By uploading, submitting or otherwise disclosing or distributing Content of any kind at or on the Site or otherwise through the Services you represent and warrant that you own all rights in the Content and you agree that the Content will be subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/legalcode.en), or the terms and conditions included and/or attached to the code.

There is probably an even better wording... but class is distracting me from finding it.