(a).
"... Beatmap Nominators, Quality Assurance Team, etc) will be explicitly forbidden from undertaking or participating in paid modding, ranking OR beatmapping commissions ..."
- That means any member of osu! team can't get paid to mapping/modding/ranking, which indicates:
(1) A map can still get ranked if it's a commissioned map made by people who isn't a member of the osu! team, so long as any BN/QAT... who have modded/nominated it didn't get paid, and
(2)
peppy wrote:
Sparhten wrote:
if so whats to stop people from just quitting qat/bng and doing the same thing?
> Nothing. And completely banning it is not our goal here. See the second half of the original post which attempts to make this distinction.
(b).
"... we ask that all individuals who undertake commissioned work to do so tastefully, with utmost respect given to the license/rights-holders of any works involved in the creation of a beatmap - this includes obtaining proper licensing/clearance for all media/art/etc involved. "
That doesn't mean: "If a commissioned map doesn't have any permission from artists who have participated in making the song, then it would be strongly prohibited;"
It means: "We're still living in the grey area,
please obey that simple convention, osu! players,
PLEASE!"
BluGalaxian wrote:
Thank you, osu! team! This exploitation was handled in the most fit way possible if you ask me.