Howdy, I'm one of the dev's/writers (mostly writer). So I can respond a bit.
I think that, unless they start a patreon page and a monthly subscription with which they earn something, they're free to do so. Yes, it's not correct. Yes, it's not legal, but as long as they don't ask for money, personally speaking I think that it's fine.
This is correct. No patreon, no money. We don't want it at all. Not even a donation button, we don't want to have any sort of income with the project at all. The closest thing to reimbursement we have is a list of requested works (all impregnation doujins, go figure) that would be nice if they were translated.
Even our main release site, Waifu.nl has no ads. We have no intention whatsoever to make a dime off this project.
Japanese companies typically have a pretty hands-off approach to anything outside of Japan. But we aren't looking to rock the boat, just a bunch of pervy anons.
You can never tell these days, some companies are finicky... Only time will tell... But yes, as long as they don't make money off it at all, they might be safe...
I just quoted this post, because you've made like 10 in the past 2 pages.
I'm sorry that we use borrowed art from other games is upsetting. If it makes you feel any better, in the credits screen you can see the source links for each character. I'm not in an appropriate spot to boot up the game now, but I'm pretty sure if you click the character or the source title in the credits screen it will open a browser to the sources VNDB page.
edit: I also kinda find it slightly humorous that there's an issue that a 100% free game uses stolen art on a forum that's main purpose is to pirate patreon projects.
Will this game ever be uncensored?
Sorry to not reply to you earlier.
Some scenes are decensored, because we have a volunteer artist on board. It's also why some sprites have pregnant sprites/scenes, because he's taken the time to modify the source images.
Its not for all the characters, because this is a free passion project so he does whichever characters he feels like he has the time for.
Besides, most of us have been reading/watching hentai long enough that censored genitals are a turn-on.