I have been making tilesets for my videogame (Star Shift). https://psychronic.comI also have a 100% open development model, so when I make assets for my game I also want to share the tilesets for free with the overall community (to help them in their games). Here's an example of the tileset (one of my Abusive Prison layers): I used these Pixabay sources for some of the silhouettes, Ninja Sillhouette - Pixabay:https://pixabay.com/vectors/ninja-japan-fighter-martial-arts-153354/ Grim Reaper Sillhouette - Pixabay:https://pixabay.com/vectors/death-grim-reaper-reaper-scythe-2024663/ Thinking Woman's head - Pixabay:https://pixabay.com/illustrations/think-women-head-silhouette-2234711/ Pixabay - Dragon Sillhouette:https://pixabay.com/vectors/dragon-lizard-monster-chinese-149393/ These links show that I am free to use for commercial and non-commercial uses, and that I'm not required to attribute. As a courtesy, I attributed anyway (when I upload the tileset on various forums). But recently I've been running into trouble of my art getting taken down because I used something from Pixabay. They are saying that Pixabay's license doesn't allow me to do this. They are claiming that by me altering the images and turning them into little wall graffiti for my tileset, that it's redistributing the originals which is a violation of your license or something. It's knid of a nightmare. I just want to get on the record whether I'm allowed to redistribute my tileset based on your licensing terms of no attribution required. The hang-up is that when I want to upload anywhere, they usually make me classify it as a certain type of license (cc0, CC3, GPL, etc.), but when I try to upload as CC0, they say it's not allowed because of the Pixabay license. Can somebody clear this up? It seems like a hot mess. I was going to link an example of what I was encountering but it escalated to the point where at various forums my whole account is getting deleted because of "art theft" (and they point back to your license because I modified something from here). It's driving me crazy. I've never been treated like more of a criminal than when I try to give away stuff for free that I made or modified. Here's the site that deleted my account. https://opengameart.org/
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