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appleide
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 Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: Paul, open source? |
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If you release this as open source, and put it on sourceforge, there'll be a ton new developers... the disadvantage is that your name is not the only one that goes on the product + you don't get to sell it when you finished...
But another upside, is , if (I know you won't..  ) you ever give up, there'll be always someone to take over.
P.S thanks for making the game!! |
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Paul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, what the heck. I've decided to open source it... http://sourceforge.net/projects/evh
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Dorth
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:06 am Post subject: |
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Well, I can only approve & congratz you for this move ^^
I think you have taken everyone by surprise here though ^^
Oh well, let's hope this'll greatly help the success of your project and any other with EV at heart ^^
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aplasticspork
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 4:55 am Post subject: |
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awwwww... i was hoping for 50% of the profits  since i've helped oh so much...
--andrzej
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Paul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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 I had dreams of profits when I started, but I don't think that was realistically gonna happen... oh, well.
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Game Mogul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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One small step for Paul, one giant leep for Paul-kind... wait, umm...
-Mogul
P.S. . . . whoa. Big move, man.
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Paul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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We'll see how it goes... if it doesn't seem to offer much benefit, I figure I can always continue on in my closed-source way. 
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Game Mogul
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Well, I'm not sure you can withdraw something once you open-source it unless you do a lot of fancy legal footwork.
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appleide
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| if you really wanted to... you can always take it back quietly.... |
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Dorth
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:19 am Post subject: |
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Not so. He can offer a version of the code in open-source, but all further devellopment can still be made under his own name, & thus be proprietary work. Since the first code was his to beguin with, he can also use it out of the GNU license, so yeah, he can open-source a version & then keep on working on a private version.
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Paul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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Exactly. I still have a copyright on the code that I have written.
And it is now all available at the sourceforge website.
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