This is a continuation of issues raised in
this thread, which some posters thought were off-topic and would be better discussed elsewhere. Accordingly I have started a new thread.
One of the poster's in the previous thread raised the question as to what issues the unfortunate demise of CTP would raise for the use of CTP tilesets. This concerns me as well, since I have been spending a lot of time building a module making extensive use of the CTP Bablyon tileset, which, unlike the other CTP tilesets, has recently been removed from the CTP vault page and is no longer available for download. Obviously if I expect anyone else to be able to play my module when released, it will have to be made available in some form, by me as a module-specific hakpak if no other alternative presents itself. I assume given the positions adopted by some CTP members about use of their work that they would have problems with that.
Now before I am subjected to a lecture about content creators' alleged rights, let me first say that I do not want to do this, was perfectly happy to abide by CTP's stated terms of use until the CTP itself made it impossible to do so, and have no desire or intention to deny the makers of this content any of the credit due them (I would be perfectly happy to praise them to the skies for this remarkable tileset if called upon to do so). I have no desire to upset anyone by using their content in ways they would not be happy with. Finally, let me point out that for me personally the easiest way to handle this, by far, would have been to simply go ahead with a renamed hakpak or something incorporating the Bablyon content, without, most likely, anyone involved with CTP even knowing I had done so, since I am just one module author among many, and without there being much anyone could do about it anyway. This would have allowed me to avoid a potentially unpleasant argument and get on with my work. The fact that I am even posting this is, I hope, proof of my desire to come to some arrangement that would respect the wishes of the CTP team and its members, if that is at all possible.
As far as I can see, unfortunately, to fulfill some of the above desires, I would be expected to give up on years of my own work because a necessary component for it has been abruptly and arbitrarily removed. Am I really expected to tamely do this? Is there no amicable alternative that can be proposed?
