I don’t think you know US laws either
Then I won’t be suing for copyright infringement
I’m fine with making people email me if they want to sell derivatives of a creative work tho
It’s useful as it makes it harder for AI to use it. Derivates can still reach out to ask to be allowed to sell it
rio’s color scheme may be modified by editing the .c configuration files and re-compiling:
Note: Someone will mock you for doing this.
What’s wrong with the pretty gray background?
It says in the article that he explicitly stated it was a clone, so yeah. only bad thing was being kinda a jerk when asked to take it down
Exactly. It feels more like making a snake clone with fun features. Second guy learned some stuff, but was a dick about it. Ultimately no one was hurt tho and this doesn’t seem like a big deal
But games and art aren’t exactly like that. People train by copying great art, and code and games especially are iterative. It’s not like he took a super useful thing and made millions by claiming he invented it. He took a game, made a clone and added features, admitting it was a clone. Like snake and pong and brickbreaker.
Maybe I’m bad at itch.io but it looks like they are both free. Lemme offer another analogy.
Your and your friend have sandwhich parties and one day you compare notes. Your friend’s sandwich is really good, so you make it yourself and add some things. Now you really like the sandwich so you throw a sandwhcih party with the new sandwich and tell everyone it’s based on your friend’s sandwich.
Then your friend asks why you coppied his sandwich and you’re a jerk about.
That’s how this reads to me
Guess I just don’t understand how it screws the other guy
I feel like it matters that he’s not selling it though… He liked the idea, added features he liked and is sharing what he made. He also mentions that it’s a clone. He sounds like a jerk, but like…
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I think they should also be paid using their state’s disability/unemployment system and get food through their state’s EBT system.
A lot of people are recommending version control. While it’s good practice, that isn’t a requirement of sharing your code. If you want to make it really simple at first, add a License (as others have mentioned) and just post the code anywhere. Upload a tar archive to a website, use sourceforge or even lemmy.
Learning git would still be useful for you and potential contributors but it is not a requirement. Open source just means you share the source and explicitely provide a license for others to use and modify it
But if it was illegal to research 99% of your current field even if the information existed you may feel differently
Especially because people who want to pirate games for playing have no qualms. Right now the restriction is specificall on people who want to research legally
It’s too bad it’s UGLY because you’re RIGHT this was much easier to READ