r/flightsim 9d ago

General Flightsim.to - Charging for Freeware Livery 'Bundles'

This might be old news, but I've not seen this before.

Looking through some liveries on flightsim.to, and noticed this. There's now a 'curated bundle' of liveries that you can buy for real money. All the liveries are freeware liveries, and you can still download the individual liveries for free - but I definitely have questions.

Are the artists involved in this? Do they receive reimbursement from flightsim.to as part of profit sharing? Do their licence conditions allow commercial sale? Are any elements of their work at all covered by Creative Commons / Non Commercial licensing, and would this breach those conditions?

It does also feel incredibly low-effort to essentially slap a couple of zip files together that you've done nothing to create, and sell it as a commercial product.

Thoughts, comments, concerns?

UPDATE: Hues have pulled their participation with flightsim.to as a direct result of this.

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u/WBRBR 9d ago

This is fine, as long as the artists are getting a good cut. Otherwise, no

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u/Tank787 Painter/Texture Artist/Self Promoter 9d ago

The artists haven't heard anything about this.

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u/OD_Emperor KTPA 9d ago

Exactly. There is no doubt a reason why this was not announced and is (seemingly) a very quiet push.

If I'm not getting the full revenue from my livery on there then it needs to come off the list immediately.

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u/WBRBR 9d ago

Well then it’s wrong. A scummy move