as far as open source goes, i'll open-source mine once i have something that might really help someone. the way i look at it, if someone uses my stuff, then that's one more mod i might play. unless they steal my lousy code, but then shame on them.
barret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sniper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 7:21 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What to do when people blatently steal your code? > Tom didn't recruit the programmer. Anyhow, it was a time when programmers > were scarce (still true today though. Ehhh) There's no way to tell if a > programmer isn't going to stab you in the back. You just have to hope for > the best, and try to trust the person. > > I see other parts of the svencoop code may be going into the real deathmatch > modification by Mark, but we can't tell for sure just yet. We only [know] > that the mp3 player vgui code was stolen. > > Anyhow, about going open source: I suspect modifications for Half-Life don't > do that specifically because of immature people like Mark. There are too few > respectful programmers out there. Other projects that go open source usually > are in well respected communities with mature adult thinkers. That's how I > see it, anyhow. > > I know a lot of Half-Life modifications have taken on bad programmers > before. Though many of them don't go on to re-distribute stolen intellectual > property for their own benefit. It is a crime and it is shameful. > > -Sniper > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vyacheslav Djura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:20 AM > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What to do when people blatently steal your code? > > > > Hello Tom, > > > > Well, if you recruited coder you don't know very good then why you > > gave him source code of your project? > > > > What to do now? My friend had situation something like that, but with > > his site. He found some site which had design absolutely stolen from > > his site. The only things that were changed were copyright signs and > > captions for navigation bar... When my friend saw that he wrote letter > > to the support of site where that "project" was hosted, explained them > > a situation, showed them his site and....in a few days he received > > reply from hosting site. They told that problem was solved - he > > checked site with stolen deisgn and...it wasn't there. They deleted > > the whole site ;) > > > > So, what PHL told you? How's far your discussion? > > > > -- > > Vyacheslav > > Level-designer > > Deep-Shadows (http://www.deep-shadows.com) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
