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I made 100 high-quality illustrations, totally free. Use it anywhere without attribution.

Hey everyone,

I know that all of you are working on exciting products. To help you make it a bit more beautiful, I have made 100+ high-quality illustrations. As the title suggests, they are:

  1. Totally free
  2. Absolutely don't need any attribution :)

Here's Scale: https://2.flexiple.com/scale/all-illustrations

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Fernando Martínez

Great illustrations!

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hrishikesh1990

Thanks :)

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

The license doesn't mention modifying the illustrations and using the modified version

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hrishikesh1990

I have mentioned about this in the last line of the license text: Feel free to download, tweak, share the illustrations!

Link: 2.flexiple.com/scale/home#license

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

Oh, I see. Apparently I lost some of my attention towards the end of the paragraph and overlooked that word. Does it still count as "tweaking" if you put together two images, for example? like taking the background of one but the foreground of another.

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hrishikesh1990

Yes, surely. That works too. I am creating a more detailed text for the license and will include something like 'modify' instead of 'tweak' to make it more clear.

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Wijayaac

Like the style !

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hrishikesh1990

Thanks!

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Aya Bouchiha

Great Job My friend
You Are Creative

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hrishikesh1990

Haha, thanks so much :)

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Darren Kearney (he/him)

I'm curious. How are you providing these for free?

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hrishikesh1990

I have always found design to be a huge handicap for anything that I create. I started by creating these for myself and using it on my projects majorly Remote Tools. So thought might as well open source it & give back to the community.

I have added many more illustrations though before making the website live. Hopefully, in future, it might drive some traffic to my projects too :)

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Darren Kearney (he/him)

Illustrations are very important for delivering a message so I am surprised that these are free because they look like a lot of time and expertise has gone into the creation of these illustrations.

Too many designers work for "exposure", which is why I am asking about this. I don't see any problem if you made these artworks yourself, or if you paid another illustrator to make these and have the rights to use them as you wish. Once the artist is paid. And if you are the artist, you can do artwork for your own promotion, why not? Not everyone has the resources to invest in decent illustrations so the fact you are willing to provide these for free is great. Fair play to you in this case, everyone can benefit!

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hrishikesh1990 • Edited

Well said, Darren - it pretty much sums up the entire rationale :)

The illustrations take a lot of time & effort since I want to keep it high quality - started on this back in March/April.

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Junxiao Shi

The only conditions are that you don't duplicate Scale, create a competitor product or sell it as illustration packs :).

Very weird license. It sounds like public domain but you can't sell. It sounds like CC BY-NC but you don't need attribution.

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hrishikesh1990

I want to keep this free for everyone. Don't want someone to just create an interface and charge for the illustrations.

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ヘンタイちゃん

Do you know of any premade licenses that work best for open-source projects that "allow illustrations to be embedded in (non-) commercial sites under the condition that the artwork may not directly be sold without the creator's consent"?

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Lewis Lloyd

same feeling here. unDraw switching their MIT license to a “do not compete” made me incredibly skeptical, and it’s the same model here.

the benefit of open source is that you’ll never be wrapped into a dirty lawsuit over a technicality. licenses like this scare developers off.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

My favorite license is DBAD. Not sure how well it really works, though.

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Matthieu • Edited

As a developer who work for a big company (big company = more vigilant about licenses), I wouldn't even bother asking the legal team about DBAD and WTFL, I know that I won't ever be able to use a work licensed under those. I highly recommend that you don't use this kind of license.

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I think the license basically says "use it, even in commercial products, but do not sell it as your own work"

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Tom Smykowski

Thank you

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Mohammed E. MEZERREG

Thank you for sharing.

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Tapas Adhikary

You have a great mindset.. Thanks for helping out the dev community. Awesome work and wish you all the best, Hrishikesh.

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hrishikesh1990

Thanks so much Tapas :)

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Lynne

This is awesome! Thanks for the great work!

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hrishikesh1990

Cheers Lynne :)

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Kedar

This is so amazing. Such high-quality work. Thank you.
It is refreshing to see the Rupee logo in the "Earn Rewards" vector.
Illustrations need more diversity too. 🙏

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hrishikesh1990

Thanks Kedar :)

Surely, will try to add this in the future ones.

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Ishaan Sheikh

That's Great! 👏

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Artem Vorobiov

It's really awesome!
Thanks!

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Loralighte

People like you are why the internet is so great. Thank you.

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hrishikesh1990

Very kind of you to say that :)

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Megan Paffrath

Very cool! Nice work!

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hrishikesh1990

Thanks Megan :)