Be careful when using an NDA though because they must be of legal age to enter into a formal contract that can be upheld in court. I think Valve made a mistake in the steam beta by allowing people under 18 in since the NDA they signed couldn't be upheld (that didn't stop Valve kicking them out, but I would have like to have seen some lawsuit action there ;) ).
> > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeff Katz > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 6:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What do you do when someone blatently "steals" your > code? Code, compiled or uncompiled, is considered > intellectual property in a majority of the world. Normally I > would tell you to pursue legal action against him, but, alas. > Unless you happened to ask him to sign a Non Disclosure > Agreement (NDA), anything you gave him (source, binaries) > instantly became part of his IP as well as yours... its like > giving someone part of your school lunch for safe keeping. If > you don't tell him not to eat your Jell-O, he is damn well > going to eat your Jell-O, and probably your sandwich too. > What can you do? Legally, not much can be done. You can sling > mud at his mod, cause it to fail etc. From your emails I can > see that he isn't a nice person, so he isn't likely to just > give up. You can petition valve to remove his SDK license > (yes, they can do that too), or you can just live and learn. > > > PS. All my mod team members have signed a NDA > > > Jeff 'Kuja' Katz > Digital Paintball > http://www.digitalpaintball.net > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
