Month: May 2006

We believe that the highest standard of freedom should be sought for
as many works as possible. And we seek to define this standard of
freedom clearly. We call this definition the “Free Content and
Expression Definition”, and we call works which are covered by this
definition “free content” or “free expressions”.

Neither these names nor the text of the definition itself are final
yet. In the spirit of free and open collaboration, we invite your
feedback and changes. The definition is published in a wiki. You can
find it at:

http://freedomdefined.org/

Bloodspell

There’s no evidence to show that “piracy” hurts artists’ incomes.

So of course:

BloodSpell is released under a “Creative Commons Attribution, No Commercial Use” License.

That clear? Piracy doesn’t hurt, so they are releasing the work under a NonCommercial licence. Excuse me whilst I fire up my Che Guevara t-shirt.

Update: Bloodspell’s makers tell me that they don’t have a licence from Bioware, who make the software they use, to release their work commercially. Since the work is a movie/video, I’m guessing this has more to do with the assets than the engine (it’s Neverwinter Nights). But that explains the NC license. And makes it cool that they got it.

I will now do my people’s traditional dance of apology and offer various sacrifices to Strange Company.