Look here's the thing, and I don't want to come across as an asshole here, so bare with me.
The reason why I'm so...I donno...anti-rips, is the fact that I, and the other members of the team, spent ALOT of time on this. That Garcia? Very time-consuming. Adam? Even more so, and that's only scratching the surface. Thing is, we did it for SORR. We didn't do it for nothing, we didn't do it for some random project, we did it for a specific project we had great pride in and believed was frankly, awesome. Other we woulda came outta the woodworks years ago and did stuff for BOR and Mugen.
And BOR and Mugen's another point too. People see these chars, rip them off, don't credit them and edit them and all our time? Time saved for them! Ahaha suckers!!!....is the feeling I get from that.
Now a point that's been made before is a valid one: We ripped Sega's sprites, edited them, etc. etc. Countering that, we did that because A) We were mashing 3 games into one B) Fans want those specific sprites/looks and C) We were doing a tribute to that game. We created/edited stuff for that purpose, and when people rip our shit and throw it into hasty BOR mods, and just absolute garbage games, it is NOT because they are saying "wow, I want to do a tribute to SORR!", it comes down to "Wow new sprites I can steal!". Stealing from the Sega games is mostly due to getting the base SOR experience. Stealing from Fans is just that. Stealing from other Fans.
I'm not against sprite sharing, really I'm not. It's just the fact that seeing something I worked so hard on (and other guys too lik Daors, Sonic, and Shinobi) COULD be bastardized unnerves me.
EDIT: I received 5 points for this post.