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Dark GDK / Source Code Is Fredom Of Speech

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Funkbrotha10
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Posted: 4th May 2009 08:01
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source code is classified under freedom of speech.

Therefor if someone wanted to sell their game by giving out the source code they could do that EVEN WITHOUT the nessicary liscense
just thought you should know...I am a lawyer

it was once said that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could re-produce the works of shakespear...
Now thanks to the internet we know that that is not true
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go2none
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Posted: 4th May 2009 12:26 Edited at: 4th May 2009 12:26
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Could you elaborate on
Quote: "to sell their game by giving out the source code"
Aren't sell and give out contradictory?
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prasoc
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Quote: "I am a lawyer"


I think you misspelt it: its IANAL (I am not a lawyer)
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IanM
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Posted: 4th May 2009 16:32
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Quote: "Aren't sell and give out contradictory? "

No.

There are games where the client is free for download, and even the full game is playable up to a point.

There are systems for sale where the source code itself is given away, but the support is sold (MySQL for example), or where you can sponsor development (Apache), or where content is sold (Quake series - the code is now GPL for Quake 1 to 3, but you have to buy to get the game content).

To say that sell & give out/away are contradictory shows that you haven't thought about it enough.

Quote: "its IANAL (I am not a lawyer)"

I suspect you may be right
I'd never expect to hear anything so simplistic said by a lawyer, especially seeing as the statement is missing the crucial (and probably the most important) part

Utility plug-ins collection (updated 28/03/09) and
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CuCuMBeR
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Posted: 4th May 2009 16:37
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Quote: "I'd never expect to hear anything so simplistic said by a lawyer"


Actually, it is unrealistic because you can not get a word (of advice) out of a lawyers mouth without paying for it.

There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
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