Re: [Enigma-devel] Oxyd 2000

[Daniel Heck]

> >So why should copyright symbols violate anything.
> 
> The GPL does not allow removal of copyright notices

Of course I can't include a "(C) Daniel Heck"since I'm not the sole
copyright holder. Besides, if they had removed the Credits screen from
the source code, recompiled everything, and released the source code and
the program under the GPL, I probably would not/could not have objected.
But a patched binary makes me angry.

> >> A shareware level editor for a GPL'ed game just seems wrong!
> >Seems - but isn't. Otherwise nobody would have the
> > right to write
> > commercial applications for Linux (e.g. like vmware is).
>    ^^^^^^^^^ - commercial should not be used here, use the word proprietary

I hope I can still claim that Enigma is "open source" software without you
jumping on me, can I? :-)

> Yes, but again it is very unlikely to cause a problem. After all, if 
> Dongleware ever dissolves
> he would have trouble suing over copyright infringement, as depending upon 
> the contracts
> under which any other programmers/artist/etc, the copyrights might 
> effectively dissolve with
> Dongleware. Granted that most companies do not dissolve but are bought out, 
> which does
> not have problems like this

Personally I don't care.  I did not *ask* Nicosoft to remove the Oxyd
magnum data file (I can't), I only brought it to their attention.  

Besides, I don't think copyrights simply evaporate when a company
dissolves; since Donglware was mostly a one-man-show, Meinolf Schneider
(as a person) can certainly lay claim to much of the copyrights for
Oxyd.

But none of us is a lawyer, so in the end these are all educated guesses .

- Daniel