Why does Pokemon Essentials ask that creators not profit off games made using the kit?

[KRLW890]

First off: I have nothing but respect for the developers of Essentials and have no intent of going against their wishes in this regard. I'm not trying to argue against this rule, I just want a better understanding of it.

I'm writing an essay for one of my classes and monetization of fanworks is getting a section, so I thought it would be worth bringing up Essentials. Before I do though, I want to have a better understanding of the reasoning behind this. The Essentials wiki just says "Pokémon Essentials was/is created with the sole intent of being absolutely free to use," without expanding much more on the reasoning. Is it to try and keep Nintendo's eyes off these projects, something to do with Creative Commons, etc.? Thanks in advance.

 

[FlamingPhoenix]

Well, there are two main reasons. The first is because of copyright. It's the difference between writing Star Wars fanfiction and selling your own Star Wars books. Of course, Essentials can theoretically be used to create other games, bringing us to the second reason: the people who made Essentials and all the plugins you use spent a ton of time creating those resources and if you monetized your game, all the money would go to you and they would get nothing. I'm guessing Pokemon Essentials was created so that people could have fun making their own fan games, not to profit.

 

[-FL-]

Well, there are two main reasons. The first is because of copyright. It's the difference between writing Star Wars fanfiction and selling your own Star Wars books. Of course, Essentials can theoretically be used to create other games, bringing us to the second reason: the people who made Essentials and all the plugins you use spent a ton of time creating those resources and if you monetized your game, all the money would go to you and they would get nothing. I'm guessing Pokemon Essentials was created so that people could have fun making their own fan games, not to profit.

First, you answer yourself. In PSDK people can remove the pokémon stuff and monetize.

Second, this changes nothing. Creators will earn no money regardless it was used to commercial games or not.

I'm guessing Pokemon Essentials was created so that people could have fun making their own fan games, not to profit.

I gonna call it as third. There a lot of people using Essentials for making money, but other than selling the games, like making commissions.

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I have 3 other guesses:

1. People who made Essentials don't want to be associated with commercial games.
2. Essentials is a old kit made with contributions of several non-active people. So, isn't easy to have permission for all.
3. Even with the rule about "not monetize with pokémon stuff", this may draws Nintendo attention and make easy for Nintendo people (and public opinion) making a misjudgement about this.