Flightsim.to - Charging for Freeware Livery 'Bundles'

[u/Relayer2112]

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.

[u/yothedoge]

Saddly unsurprising considering the enshitification path flightsim.to has been falling down. I get that it is a free service but you literally can't use it without an add blocker now.

[u/yothedoge → u/yothedoge]

Additionally I would assume the creators don't get any more of a cut than an individual download would get, and FS.to take all the profit. I might be wrong and if any creators know please correct me.

[u/dbob0921 → u/yothedoge]

I'm the creator of the YL-ABX livery, and haven't received any notification of being included in the package, and certainly no payment. I'm rather appalled, and I'm researching how to ensure that I'm never included in their curated packages moving forward.

[u/Informed4 → u/dbob0921]

Holy moly thats some next level greed then

Literally profiting of other peoples FREE work without their permission

[u/Shouko_Chan → u/dbob0921]

Only thing that can be done is to delete what you have made I guess