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Chazcon  Title: FOR THE VITAE!
Posts: 524
Registered: 2001-12-11 13:57:12
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Arch_Magi posted:
It is my firm belief that if Decal and/or ElTank folded up shop, AC would be even further dead inside of two months. I know for a fact that I would shut down all but 1 account (down from a high of 19) if Decal/ElTank folded (as it stands now, my other account is only there for when I get bored and wanna play my sword toon, but 99.5% of the time, it is a Buff bot for the guild.
Yup, I would kill 5 accounts immediately and just keep my main around for kicks I guess.
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By disabling decal's render service, lifetank still functions with the newest version of decal, just without the huds.
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Now there's a hot tip!!
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Yah that's hot.
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vn_belce Posts: 22
Registered: 1999-11-20 21:16:44
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1/1/00 12:00am
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TY much theredcheese, just removing huds didn't work, but your way works perfect 
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-Isabela- Title:
Run Birdies Run!!!
Posts: 40
Registered: 2001-6-29 16:23:53
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Lil-Blub posted:
Again read up.. No one said ANYTHING was final.
How many times do I gotta repeat it before it sticks in your un-open minds?
I never assumed anything was final. Just that in the event this occurred (not by you, or even with LifeTank necessarily), that it isn't legal under copyright law. In my opinion, it is also unethical to take the work of a third party that has been released for free and go against their wishes in order to profit.
I also wonder whether one is really allowed to modify something that is open source and then not keep it open source.
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open source all depends on the license it is opened under.
I can take any of my own personal code and release it to the world.. which would make it "open source"
unless I put a license agreement at the top and/or disclaimed my intentions, then it wouldn't matter legally what people did with it.. someone taking the code as-is and claiming it as their own is unethical, but not completely illegal either.
If Spk didn't put a license in his release, or state the restrictions on the release of the code, then it's mostly fair game.
If Lil-Blub or anyone else took the code, they would technically be able to close it off and not worry legally about too much issue... unless they did certain things with it.
It would be unethical for Lil-Blub to claim ownership of the code. It would also be unethical for Lil-Blub to profit off of the code without adding quite a bit of modification.
"Open Source" is really poorly used in most cases because what's REALLY important is the license of the Open Source.
Take Decal for example.. it was open source.. it was under the Public Domain license however which allowed us to basically make a ton of changes and close the source without releasing any of it. If the code would have been under the Gnu Public License (GPL) then we would have been in some serious trouble for closing the source (as many companies have with certain drivers).
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Faradn Posts: 45
Registered: 2002-3-25 15:53:56
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Lifetank was updated by someone else, so this whole issue is moot.
No hype, no fees.
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Date Posted:
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"It would be unethical for Lil-Blub to claim ownership of the code. It would also be unethical for Lil-Blub to profit off of the code without adding quite a bit of modification. "
I agree... but what defines "Quite a bit of modification" ? LOL.. VB6 to C++? 
Already was going to be one of the things in the works...
If someone else wants to put their energy into the project to keep it updated, I might ask that person for that source code, add a few modifications and additions and probably just close it to my clan. It saves the work for everyone and I would also send that modified source BACK to that someone.
Everyone wins.
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