Since I still haven’t heard a response the other 4 times I asked, asking it here instead.
By creating, uploading, or distributing UGC via the Creator Services, you are hereby confirming to us that you own the sole unencumbered right in and to such UGC and that the rights granted to us in this Section 5, and our exploitation of those rights, will not violate or infringe the rights of any third parties.
You remain solely responsible for Your UGC. You agree that Your UGC will comply with the terms of this Creator PLA and the Creator Policy. You agree that Your UGC will not: (1) violate the rights of any third party, any applicable law, rule, regulation, or the Agreement; (2) violate the Company’s or any third-party’s intellectual property rights, including copyrights or trademarks, or otherwise commercially exploit such rights without authorization;
Regardless of it being a paid or free release, you must have unencumbered rights to the user content, cannot infringe on a third parties rights, and you agree to both of those terms and that the content does not violate intellectual property, copyright, trademark, etc.
So regardless of the license given with a release, you are not permitted to release it anywhere where you are bound by the platform’s license agreement (these forums, tebex)?
Unfortunately the only answer I received regarding this was…
“Thanks for letting us know. We agree there is an issue and we’re looking into it.”
On a related note, nta once stated that GPLv3 was incompatible with the platform - and it would also be incompatible with thes platform license agreement. LGPLv3 should be fine as far as I can interpret but IANAL. Though I’m at a point of just writing something along the lines of “you can freely use and modify this resource, but go fuck yourself if you want to encrypt it, throw it on tebex, and be a dirty little fucker like 90% of the FiveM community”.
I’m not sure why you keep beating around the bush in your posts, it just seems like you’re going through some weird breakup with FiveM. Every time you discuss something on Discord, on the forums, etc just seems like someone going through a bad breakup.
If you want to discuss the legality and ramifications of licensing and ToS, you should speak directly about which resource/user/organization is violating this stuff, rather than dancing around it and making side references like the cult of dbub/nta in the Discord #offtopic.
Rich, coming from Prince Genital Piercing himself. I’m also being quite direct - I want answers, because when I and many others do report these creators and resources we get hit with the same generic copy-paste response and then zero action taken.
seems like you’re going through some weird breakup with FiveM
I’ve invested thousands of hours into making and releasing free resources that anybody can download for free and have an open source license which some specific restrictions - which are being constantly ignored. I have a right to be pissed at the complete lack of action and improvements over the past few years, especially now when certain people pat themselves on the back for fixing one issue and creating a dozen more.
FiveM is built off the back of open source and would be nowhere near as successful nor large without people sharing information and releasing resources like essentialmode, es_extended, mysql-async, txadmin, etc. Nowadays the focus is entirely on gatekeeping, monetisation, and encryption.
you should speak directly about which resource/user/organization is violating this stuff
Feel free to look at the absolute cancer that is paid releases.
rather than dancing around it and making side references
What references? I’m talking about an overall issue in the community - I shouldn’t need to name and shame when there are reports being opened and ignored over and over.
Is every paid release stolen? Of course not. Many are, or contain licensed code without proper attribution or disclaimers. There are no assurances that user content meets the release guidelines or the platform license agreement, or that they do not fail to meet the terms of any licensed content within them.
This is nothing new, and has been a problem since forever. When the release section was only for free assets it was less of a problem - but the moment it was monetised there needed to be stricter guidelines put into place, and a way to enforce them. Promises were made and nothing was ever delivered.
With the R* acquisition I would hope it finally becomes a priority, but things are moving slowly and we barely have any communication or community engagement outside of the (lackluster) community pulses.
Outside of stolen or infringing content being included in paid releases, we still have insane practices somehow normalised on the platform. These would be better off discussed in a separate thread, but for example:
Encryption
Questionable and sometimes exploitable code gets to hide behind “asset protection”. Free resources MUST be open-source and cannot be encrypted; often pushing people to sell something simple because they don’t want others profiting from it.
“Open source” releases
People selling resources at $30, and then having a premium “open-source” version available for $60. This completely defeats the purpose of asset protection - that is to prevent pirated assets from being redistributed. They also aren’t open source by definition.
He is right to bring this Up, Cfx keep deleting these posts , and someone needs to show that Cfx does not care at all, they are allowing users to be scammed by purchasing scripts that are stolen and let them use keymaster that Cfx provides, even when caught these said creators are not even banned from he forumns and the scripts are still being sold
Because it gves them more profit.
Rockstars came in to the picture and doesn’t seem to do anything about it either.
I don’t have anything against paid resources, as they are (usually) of higher quality than free ones, and payment incentives good developers to make more and more stuff, however I do have a problem with those who resell someone else’s work without their permission
