BY MARIA KOROLOV · JUNE 18, 2015
Folks regularly share textures in the various Google Plus communities, and I’ve long wished that there was a place I could go to look through them all, instead of having to download them the minute I see them because I might not find them again.
In particular, I want a place to share CC0, or public domain licensed, textures. That’s the license under which Linda Kellie released her work, and it’s the most useful for builders.
With other Creative Commons license types, such as CC-BY and CC-NC, you have to keep track of each texture to make sure that you don’t use them in violation of the license terms.
CC-NC content, for example, is only for non-commercial use. That means that you might not be allowed to use it in a way that could be construed as benefitting a commercial grid. And you certainly can’t use it for making content that you plan to sell.
CC-BY content requires that you keep track of the creator of the content, and make sure that the creator gets credit. That can quickly become a bookkeeping nightmare if you have lots of different CC-BY textures in your build.
