Re: Harsher action for copy paste
@Ethin, I hate to say it, but most people on the forum could care less about a license agreement. I made one for stw, and though you agree to it when you install, it doesn't stop people from sharing around the sounds and using them and I can't really get anything done legally because of a combonation of being under aged and people being in different countries etc. Then, people will claim that they remade the sounds and sometimes it's hard to proove, etc. The only way anything will be done about code clones here is if the comunity wants something to be done. unfortunately all too many people are of the oh it's a new game who cares if the desecration of hundreds of people was involved in it's creation it's a new game so lets play yaaaaay! NTM, by default if you don't include a license agreement source code is closed and can't be used. I don't have to put a license agreement on my personal possessions or that quilt I just spent a weekend carefully sewing to make it mine. If a thief breaks into my house and steels that quilt, it's still highly illegal and I can get help finding it and getting it returned to me. If a teacher finds out that a student looked over my shoulder and copied my test I had been taking, that student would be punished, I don't need a license agreement that the person sitting next to me must be bound to. Similarly, unless you give a license saying that some piece of code is OK to use, it is by default not OK to use. Yeah in theory this could be solved with a license agreement in some ways but it honestly doesn't work in practice, not for most of us independent developers who can't propperly enforce it. Like, I don't get it. Everyone would get mad if they heard about a hacker steeling files from a computer and using/reposting them. But if those files happen to be code? Oh it's perfectly fine no license go right ahead hacker oh can you also steel this and that code from me before the trogen is found out? Thanks! It's the same thing. Code is just files on a computer. It gets unclear if that code has been given willingly, but if it has been stolen, which again, there is no 100 percent impenetrable protection against such theft, they are still stolen files and should be treated acordingly. If someone uses them, by default it is not ok in the slightest.
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