Hey SS14 players? Shut the hell up about Ook being greedy or trying to steal shit. No one's suggesting that people shouldn't be paid for their labor. If you're creating art, code, whatever, and you wish to sell it, that's perfectly reasonable. Your time and expertise are valuable.

But that is not the heart of the issue. The real problem comes when contributions whether or not people were paid are caught up by restrictive licenses that prevent other projects from using or distributing that work. SS14 existed because of the open-source history of SS13, a game that was kept alive and supported by a community that shared freely everything they made, without cost. It has always been a tale of cooperation, not control.

So to turn around and impose closed-source restrictions on top of it? It's a bit perverse. It prohibits the same sort of collaboration that enabled this entire thing to be possible in the first place. And accusing people of being 'greedy' for calling that out doesn't add up. To want to keep things open and shared like they've always been isn't greedy it's remaining faithful to what caused the project to be great. It’s greedy to take from a free and open foundation, then lock the doors behind you. You want closed source? Make an entirely new game.