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Brian_Smith selling other people's mods
Sheath:
--- Quote from: Bisjac on June 03, 2011, 12:32:45 PM ---thank god we have so many lawyers in this comunity
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Don't need to be a lawyer to understand mainstream aspects of the law. This is black and white; you can't sell something you don't own.
DontCare4Free:
--- Quote from: Sheath on June 03, 2011, 07:59:37 PM ---Don't need to be a lawyer to understand mainstream aspects of the law. This is black and white; you can't sell something you don't own.
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You can if you have permission from the copyright holder.
Sheath:
--- Quote from: DontCare4Free on June 03, 2011, 08:00:17 PM ---You can if you have permission from the copyright holder.
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Which obviously he doesn't.
Miga:
--- Quote from: Stocking on June 02, 2011, 11:29:11 PM ---This isn't just drama, this is legal stuff.
To my knowledge, all add-ons are under the GNU license, which means that they don't really have a sole copyright holder but it's still illegal to sell it.
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Nowhere near, I'm afraid. Blockland is proprietary software. If it was under the GNU GPL, you technically could sell it, just as long as it remains open source and under the same license. In this case, the license to Blockland states something somewhere around the lines of "All derivative works are owned by Blockland", meaning that technically anything you made isn't even yours. So it is quite illegal against the licensing terms.
Though I might be horribly wrong on this, but I'm positive that Blockland is anything but/related to being GPL'd. That much I do know.
--- Quote from: DontCare4Free on June 03, 2011, 12:59:32 PM ---Secondly, it IS legal to sell GPL-licensed stuff, even without permission from the copyright holder, as long as you distribute the source code too (which is not a concern for interpreted languages like TS). That is even officially encouraged by GNU.
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...and here I thought I was like the only one who actually knew about GNU stuff. Good to know I'm not.
heedicalking:
--- Quote from: Chrono on June 03, 2011, 02:19:40 PM ---Excuse me. I gave Brian Smith the current version that he has, and from what I know, it's fully up-to-date.
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why? he has no idea how to use any of the mods given to him