share alike

In all of the "Eloh mods" out there, I really can't find any that are "open" as well.

Don't get me wrong--I'm extremely grateful that people have found my PSDs to be useful, but at the same time I really wanted some one else to release their modifications as open source to the community as well (kinda like Nicholaz, but with skins maybe?)--this is what open source is about: it's perfectly fine to take, it's great to redistribute, and it's still perfectly fine to make a profit off of it, but at the end of the day, it's still better to give back.

In one aspect the lack of any modifications back into open source is a reflection upon me--I need to do more to facilitate contributions to a community-based development of a skin (and believe me, I'm trying to explore different avenues of doing this... in addition to making a new skin--but alas, I still need more time to evaluate my options >_<).

Yet at the same time I can't help but question the purely capitalistic drive of much of what happens in Second Life--nearly everything is done with a "bottom-line" in mind; when did L$ begin to matter so much? It's nice having L$ to spend, but does it really pay your RL bills, make you that much happier to accrue L$ in real life? And most importantly--by how much does it outweigh the joy and gains of sharing and contributing something back to the SL community that makes everyone's SL experience better?

That said, I've made up my mind to refrain from any more open source releases until (A) Linden Lab implements a share alike permission [1], or (B) someone else releases an open source skin (i.e. show us your PSDs), or (C) Linden Lab releases their modifications to my PSDs for their new Library Avatars (I mean really, come on--FFS--this can't be that hard--what does LL lose? P.S. LL-please include my BSD copyright lingo, you already do it in your "About" box for ogg and OpenSSL).

Yes, that's a challenge. Cheers!

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[1] Of course, enforcement of share-alike copyleft restrictions on PSDs would be realistically impossible for anyone to implement--but I'd still like to see LL take a step further in the direction of Creative Commons licensing, especially when they proclaimed to do so.

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[update] Looks like Mystical Serenity's already released her PSDs! Well played ;D I guess I hafta get my butt in gear to release something new now!

blogblogblog

I really hate my blog. I never really have much to blog about, and when I do, I'm usually drunk (or at that awkward moment between drunk and hungover, yet still conscious enough to remember my logins) and those kinda posts never turn out well, so I'm ditching it.

I'll still keep posting stuff to my flickr stream, and I'm currently trying out twitter and tumblr and some other "social web" kinda stuff in the meantime. But blogging's just not for me...

ffs

Because:

• I'm gonna be away for the weekend


• EVA01 Oe asked nicely


• Joshua also asked nicely, albeit persistently


• booze


• I'm still not happy with the chest shading :(

Cf1 PSDs

work it

I really need to make more lists lest I get nothing done.

1. Finish gamut of skin tones for f-generation (Rf, Sf)
   
   Rfº PSDs
   Credits: Hair by Krius Misfit, eyes by Evelyn Edelman, choker by beanster Potato
   
   
   
   Sfº PSDs
   Credits: Hair by Starley Thereian, eyes by Evelyn Edelman, wheat stalk by Lur Sachs


2. Redesign blog


3. Redesign Lippert "shop"


4. Experiments for g-generation


5. Do my taxes (T_T)

Play Nice

My explanation of what you need to do to "license" my skins pretty much sucks--especially where I try to explain how to "credit me without mentioning me" (which almost seems like some kind of cruel twisted fairytale riddle).

It's confusing, and any understandable aspects of my clarification are still widely left to personal interpretation, which sometimes cause the more vigilant to make accusations of misuse or theft against those less so. This is really the last thing I want happening.

I'm not going to try and explain this any more (lest I weave any more self-negating zen-like aphorisms). So, as simply put as I can say:

Please use my skins and PSDs as you see fit--for monetary, artistic, or intellectual benefit of yourself or others. I ask for nothing in return.

brb

It’d not be true to say that “real life is killing me” at the moment; more accurately it’d better be described as “real life is killing my second life.”

Real life is busy, but good ^^; brb!

Photo credits: icanhascheezburger.com

gem

So, I got this gem of an IM today:

“you might think it a charitable event gieving [sic] the entire SL population quality skins........but have you thought about the people that make an actual living creating quality skins. Along with BIAB, stolen skins and your freebies.....you effectively killed off the skins sector. Congrats............not :(”

I'm so tired of explaning the same things over and over again.

Yes, I killed your business, crashed your sim, and ate your baby (it was delicious). I'm so very sorry.