edit: Please read reply from comment of ZebulonPi. and also we are apologize for what Joel said before.
This free plugin is real Awesome!
but the Aseprite itself is bad. expensive! not free!! don't buy if you have no commitment about Aseprite.
And what an irony that Aseprite Official website itself has .org domain which means non-profit. but expect you to buy to be able to save file. ew! that's profit!!
I love this plugin and others from you.
but I hate not zero cost tools. like Aseprite one.
Oh really, you should recheck their license again here.
NOw, I assume you are too busy to read the license so here is why Aseprite is bad idea according to the license:
So please watch your mouth before saying this tool is open source. look out their license!
Just because it is on e.g. GitHub, doesn't mean it guarantees Gratis, Open Source, and FULL VERSION spirit! some projects are pretty much (pardon my dirty mouth)... can-cer.
Cancer.
I hope you understand, that people can benefit the availability while forget and even refuse to take care for the people.
moral is, don't just care for yourself but the others as well.
that's the trouble.
not all people like not $0 softwares. there are tools that are should have been trusted by professional like Blender for $0.
there numerous ways to develop softwares and be supported, such as donation or so.
also, moving from open source license into proprietary is treason! in our opinion, if they stop being humble, we will also cease our care.
oh yeah, because of this, there is LibreSprite which is last open source Aseprite build that was forked into an independent project. but there are only 25 commits ahead and way 2009 commits behind the original as of today.
Speaking about just $15, Yes I pay some softwares like Yamaha Musicsoft MIDIs, Games, or so. But of course they are not free so I cannot recklessly buy too many softwares. infact, I only have few games I bought with my own money, because prioritizing to waste money on games even useful utility is idiotic!
we must find way that will not waste our money but also has enough quality.
I know, Aseprite is awesome, but we lost it because they are not $0.
we also have seen similar treason like PartedMagic. we forced to move to SystemRescueCD.
in conclusion: not $0 = expensive! Switching to proprietary is one of the worst treason commited!
Hi ZebulonPi, thank you for your response.
We understand that the developer can be a job, and indeed everyone has their favorite way they like to monetize and gain revenue from their job and products which comes in many different forms like donation, paywall, etc.
Well, as you can see, the context regarding the disagreement of paywall our founder, JOELwindows7 had said only points to Software, as he should've implied further if haven't. Obviously, it is make sense to pay to obtain Hardware and shoplifting physical items means thief, which of course we do not encourage doing at any moment at any time. Also, we already know, pirating software is bad idea. Therefore we usually purchase software in legit ways. Although being a good person, we are only excited to purchase video games at the moment. For tools like Aseprite, Adobe, etc. we prefer to avoid such, and rather use any alternative $0 software tools as all as possible, due to our company policy.
As a matter of the fact, we are deeply disappointed regarding the decision Aseprite has made in terms of license, where formerly was a free culture compliant, GNU GPL v2, now went into a proprietary licensed according to their GitHub page. with this change, Aseprite is allowed to restrict redistribution which before, the GNU GPL v2 license requires the product to be redistributable. Beside of their default license, there is a special license for education which can be requested by education institutions.
Fun fact, yesterday we have researched the project Aseprite and found out that you can compile one yourself, absolutely free. unfortunately though, we have not yet compiled the source code ourselves, so we have no idea what outcome will be whether it is the full version or trial version.
We also have to mention regarding the GNU licenses which couple days ago our founder had criticized for reasons like Price. according to his thought, GNU licenses do not explicitly mention the requirement for price of the product, although in any case the source code shall remain visible publicly. in fact, GNU itself had clarified about selling product, and as it says, that GNU allows you to sell the software (in our thought, that is the binary), while still requiring you to share the complete source code available to the public. Restricting selling would otherwise become irony to the freedom philosophy. one of the example project that are licensed GNU based but paywalled binaries are Ardour, and this Aseprite (formerly GNU GPL v2, now proprietary or education). by this matter of fact, our founder then thought to make his own license that are like GNU but disallow paywalling both binaries and source code, however the idea is on hold due to complexity in execution, planning, and embargo.
you can read the article our founder had written here
As the we have went by time, we are going to tell you that we are changing our Reaction Policy, especially regarding paywalled soft copies. as a matter of the fact, our founder had ever started to subscribe a Patreon artist for the purpose of the apology as well as further expanding his collector passion forward. As of right now, we have added some things that we are looking forward to purchase beside video games, however tool isn't the option yet. Apology to Aseprite and other project directors alike. Perhaps next time.
in conclusion, We are apologize for what our founder had said in previous year. What our founder said is indeed bad, and unprofessional. We apologize for your inconvenience. At that time we have not researched enough before we react to any situations. We have learned and still learning.
Thank you.
