That's why you don't let people who claim to know how to program, to join without knowing if they really can or not. And having samples, its one thing to use examples as reference, but to take it in whole and claim it as your own... hot-damn. I've noticed a lot of things in Real-DM having been taken from other sources, including completely other ENGINES released game source. I just hadn't really said anything until now about it. It's a shame really.
-omega Blackened Interactive - http://blackened-interactive.com Front Line Force - http://www.flfmod.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Sent: December 4, 2002 8:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hlcoders] What to do when people blatently steal your code? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I know this is slightly OT, but ill go on anyway :) I used to code for SvenCoop, www.svencoop.com and made the mp3 player for it, both Sniper and Shimms can vouch for this. Then a coder named Mark joined the team, but was eventually kicked as we suspected he had stolen parts of our code, and he was found to have entered rouge code. Then a few days go, some shots on PHL showed our mp3 player in their mod. We then got into discussions with planet halflife on what to do as we wanted to warn them of mark. Then we found this on their site: Well lately we have been receiving complaints from the Sven Co-Op team saying that we stole their mp3 player code, because Real DM Co-Leader, and lead coder, Mark, was a previous coder for them. While the SC team is claiming we stole the code which was originally written by previous coder, Tom. Mark has told me that he wrote the majority of the code for SC mp3 player, and Tom helped him with it. However, Sven Viking has said otherwise... [...] However, someone from the SC team is also accusing us of stealing other parts of the code for Real DM and that is just pure lies. I don't even consider the mp3 player "Stealing" because Mark wrote the majority of it, however, accusing us of stealing other code just because of an assumption, is not right. The mp3 player was completly written by me ( with advice&help from another1 another ex-coder of svencoop), and its just lying that he claims he wrote it. Anyhow, we are trying to get it sorted, but im not sure there is much we can do, any thing you can think of? --tom -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
