it may seem counter intuitive but asking is rude, they already went out of their way to make it abundantly clear you can further inquiry is an intentional waste of their time.
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I disagree. Sometimes they don’t antecipate the use case that we users of their assets have in mind, which in my case it’s a very niche one I believe. I’m building (trying) a FOSS game and would be nice if I get approval to redistribute this asset, as it makes easy for contributors to build/compile the project. I don’t asking to sell or edit the asset. My point is if I can redistribute the asset in some reconignized licensing (e.g., Creative Commons), giving the authors proper credits.
I already achieved success with this approach previously and I think the author wouldn’t mind of me asking (please let me know otherwise, author).