CSUAC archives

[Redrobes]

I'm sure it will rise like a phoenix again at some point. I would assume that the issue is with his cost in bandwidth hosting it so if that were the only case it could be re-hosted elsewhere no problem. It may be that Cecil is belligerent but it may also be some entirely and reasonable reason like that he got permission from a number of the copyright holders on condition that he would not freely distribute it without some restrictions.

@jfrazierjr: If you know of any reason why its not being given the permission required to host and that we here at the guild could overcome it then let us know.

[jfrazierjr]

@jfrazierjr: If you know of any reason why its not being given the permission required to host and that we here at the guild could overcome it then let us know.

As mentioned on another thread, I know Azhrei has contacted him about possibly hosting the archive on the RPTools site, however.. I have no idea if they have actually "talked" or if Azhrei is just reaching out to him. I can try to find out from him though.

[davschm]

Please do, thank you.

[GM's Apprentice]

The artwork and GM's Apprentice should be returning in a month or two.

[Mark Oliva]

It may be that Cecil is belligerent but it may also be some entirely and reasonable reason like that he got permission from a number of the copyright holders on condition that he would not freely distribute it without some restrictions.

I've worked closely with Cecil for a few years now on the FM8 conversions of the CSUAC. To suggest that Cecil is belligerent is absolute nonsense. The symbols, objects, textures and fills in the CSUAC are the work and intellectual property of many people. These works are not in the public domain. The authors also did not release them under an open source license or anything similar. But they did give Cecil permission to distribute all of their work free to all of us under the CSUAC license, which is very liberal in terms of usage but restrictive in terms of redistributing the graphics in their original form as symbols, objects, textures and fills. When I think of the amount of unpaid time Cecil put into assembling and distributing this excellent collection, and the expenses he has occurred in doing so, seeing the word belligerent being associated with his name makes my blood start to boil a little.