>From what I understand, Joe Shmoe isn't the issue, it's the corporations. Joe Shmoe will publish his changes, the corporation will not.
Valve has a perfectly good game engine in Halflife 2, but what about everyone else? Imaginary Games Inc modifies Soya to include extra features (eg, different sounds for each sound-producing collision), have better performance, or both. The company sells an SDK, publishes original Soya source code, but not the modifications. On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Jan Ciger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pablo Angulo wrote: > > > For a library such as soya, I can think of this: you may see a game > > that is based upon soya, but sold packed in a cartridge (or dvd) for use > > in a machine such as Playstation or Nintendo, and you may be able to get > > the source code, only to find that the machine won't run it because it > > is modified. > > This is a red herring - neither PS nor Wii are able to run code unsigned > by either Sony or Nintendo. The only people able to actually *rebuild* a > modified application are the people having the development kit. However, > those are also able to sign the code and run it. > > If you are imagining Joe Schmoo hacking a Soya game on Playstation in > his living room, that is not going to happen - he will not even have the > compiler to start with and means to master the proprietary disc format > needed for the unmodified console neither. You cannot get the > development kit as an individual - it is around 5000USD/seat and only > "reputable and established developers" are eligible to get it and only > under a draconian contract. Hobbyists need not apply. > > Please, find a better example. > > Jan > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFH0FrKn11XseNj94gRAhCYAJ9bFMIgVJKcV2kRJzAK1tDpKQEONgCg8+3z > UGEQvXKtv3i0yZ98cZBj0cw= > =RboA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Soya-user mailing list > Soya-user@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/soya-user > -- D.B., "Proegssilb"
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