I love the idea of a Humble Bundle, but for other interests, like this. But this bundle is a little confusing to me. I suppose selling things that may be used professionally is much different than selling video games or eBooks.<p>The Creative Market Charity Design Bundle looks good, but the other items are just limited time subscriptions, or even worse, discounts on purchases/subscriptions. It's like paying for a coupon book. It might be nice if you're planning on purchasing some of these, but I doubt I'll use any of these services knowing that in a year (or less), my access is gone unless I pay full price.<p>Also, where is the licensing? For the Creative Market items, it seems like each one has it's own license? Most of them seem to use this Simple License[1], but I don't know if they all do. The text for the Simple License is way too vague for me to use this on any commercial project. As far as what you cannot do with the license. For example:<p>> Cannot be used in a product offered for sale where the item contributes to the core value of the product being sold.<p>How do you even decide this? The first example listed is:<p>>You Can: Use a purchased icon set as functional icons in your app, such as button icons.<p>>You Cannot: Use a purchased icon set as artwork that enhances actual gameplay in your app, such as the birds in Angry Birds.<p>That's so arbitrary. The artwork of the birds is somehow different than the artwork of the menu icons in the game? What if you make an Angry Birds clone, except where buttons are used to aim and fire the birds, instead of touch/dragging? Let's say I make a messaging app where the "core value" is just a simple, clean interface. Do I lose the ability to use these icons?<p>[1] <a href="https://creativemarket.com/licenses/simple" rel="nofollow">https://creativemarket.com/licenses/simple</a>
Question to anyone in the media industry:<p>Why aren't there a lot of open source media assets (that actually are as high quality as paid assets)? I remember trying to make games and such, and people required me to pay $1000's of dollars, seems relevant here as well, such as "10 movie clips" for $1500.<p>It puts up a barrier for individuals to use assets they haven't made, does it not? I think that was one of the main reasons FOSS was started; so a homebrew hacker doesn't require shelling out $2k for a text editor!
So if I sign up to get this.. how many of the services require credit information?<p>I'm a bit worried that I'll sign up for a bunch of services to receive the offer, and then 12 months from now when all of them expire I'll suddenly have autorenewals all over my credit card statement.
I'm guessing this is for a good cause but I don't know that a bundle works in this particular case.<p>Also, I disabled my ad block software a few weeks ago for unrelated reasons and when I visited another (news) page a few minutes later what do you know? There are now ads for "creative market" (fonts icons graphics etc) along the side of the news article... So it appears someone got a few cents worth of information by me clicking on this link as well. Oh well, I don't care but I might consider re-enabling the ad blocker.
On the off chance the creator is here, explaining what Watsi is, even if only in a few words, would be very helpful. I'd never heard of Watsi before. I had to click on the 'stories' link and then click on the Watsi homepage to find out.<p>Additionally, finding out what's in the bundle is similarly counter-intuitive. The 'Explore All Assets' link showed two separate popups that seemed like it was required to pay or at least register just to see a list of what I'd actually get.
This is a pretty great bundle, even if you only redeem a couple of the offers like myself.<p>Wunderlist and Scribd alone make this an easy purchase for me; I was going to buy Wunderlist Pro yesterday, so this is perfect.