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This looks like Aseprite. Aseprite is already open source and you can get it for free, all completely legal. The only caveat is that you need to compile it yourself (which takes 2-5 shell commands). I think this is more than fair, but ripping off Aseprite is not so much. Their license also strictly prohibits that behavior.
2. It’s okay for two projects to do the same thing, even if you personally prefer one over the other.
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Same old story, too much support requests and bad actors making it hard to make money off opensource. This is one case where we really should support the original product, you can buy a perpetual licence of a pittance and they just 2 guys chugging along. LibreSprite has 5000 commits, 30 in the past year whilst ASEPrite has over 10000 at this point.
The person you're replying to was making a clarification on the license, not arguing about the validity of changing the license or charging for it. Libresprite is an important project because people can fork it and learn from it by extending it, and submit those patches upstream, regardless of how active it is.
This looks like Aseprite. Aseprite is already open source and you can get it for free, all completely legal. The only caveat is that you need to compile it yourself (which takes 2-5 shell commands). I think this is more than fair, but ripping off Aseprite is not so much. Their license also strictly prohibits that behavior.
1. Asperite is not open source. 2. It’s okay for two projects to do the same thing, even if you personally prefer one over the other.
You might be confusing license with access. The product itself has a proprietary license. Even then, a majority of the libraries they produce are also available under the MIT license.
I'll shill this project again: I built myself a small sprite generator because I'm a terrible artist. If you're looking for pixel-art sprites, check out 8bitsmith.com. Or you can just ask Nano-Banana for sprite sheets and it does a pretty good job!
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1. Asperite is not open source. 2. It’s okay for two projects to do the same thing, even if you personally prefer one over the other.
Aseprite is open source. The source is open for anyone to access right here: https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite You might be confusing license with access . The product itself has a proprietary license. Even then, a majority of the libraries they produce are also available under the MIT license.
I'll shill this project again: I built myself a small sprite generator because I'm a terrible artist. If you're looking for pixel-art sprites, check out 8bitsmith.com. Or you can just ask Nano-Banana for sprite sheets and it does a pretty good job!
Most of the purpose of pixel art is that it's hand crafted and every pixel matters. Not much point to pixel art if you drop that aspect.
See also: https://github.com/Orama-Interactive/Pixelorama https://github.com/piskelapp/piskel They're similar pixel art editor programs.
Didn't know about Pixelorama, looks interesting. Libresprite (since aseprite went evil) has been the only editor I can use for over a decade, glad there are others now.
Begging open source projects to stop with the libre convention, it's awkward to say, it's cringe and seems to spiritually doom a project to fail.
One example that really sticks in my mind was "Libreboot". Yes, it's supposed to represent a free BIOS/booting system. But it also sounds like the name of a library dedicated to rebooting your computer.
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1. Asperite is not open source. 2. It’s okay for two projects to do the same thing, even if you personally prefer one over the other.
Aseprite is open source. The source is open for anyone to access right here: https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite You might be confusing license with access . The product itself has a proprietary license. Even then, a majority of the libraries they produce are also available under the MIT license.
"source available"[1] is a different thing, and you're right that this project is "source available".
[0]: https://opensource.org/osd
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software