On Open Source at DEFCAD
August 18, 2022
The political innocence of the artists at work in our community is a given. 3D gun developers draw firstly from their familiarity with computers and design software, and not from a common ideology.
No doubt zoomer social distress and alienation is the great motor of the guncad struggle. Because this play struggle can be unpredictable, driven by personality disorder, and lack political orientation, we militants at DEFCAD have built organizational and aesthetic buffers to protect the commons. Among these is an enforcement of free and open source licenses for files contributed by the public and our creator partners.
The DEFCAD Terms of Service, Sections 2 and 3, as well as the DEFCAD Content Distribution Agreement, Section 3, require uploaders and partners to expressly declare their uploads are licensed open source, and that they disclaim any legal power that might be used to prevent the FOSS use of these files.
In Marxist terms, aesthetics are a source of tension between artists and militants. I still believe subversive play is more noble than our site’s political “work”, so I offer some communist avenues for anti-DEFCAD radicals:
