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Re: Adventures of Lolo Crysstaafur (2 replies, 1280 views) (2005-May-3) There are several things to consider: Are you doing this project for profit->Then forget it. Are you doing this project while it's original is on the market -> TfI.. Are you doing this project by using any or part of it's code->TfI.. Are you doing this project using the original resources-> TfI.. If the above four dont' apply.. then what would the opposite mean?? Keeping a gem alive that has been abandoned. If you doing this out of pure altruism then there should be no problem *if* you are not using any of the original resources. Additionally you would be surprised how many products are made using only notes written by someone else... There are at least 10 or 20 court cases that basically lay down how IP should be treated by anyone who is RE for cultural preservation reasons. To answer you last question, in a word.. just one word. NO! That won't happen because in that single sentence you've already contradicted at least 3 of the 4 things I listed above that are no no's... Further in that question lacks an important detail (assuming the other 3 could worked around, which won't). How would you go about making your code for your Halo2 clone? Remember, pinching code for professional purposes is *seriously* frowned upon. In spite of the above, I do understand the spirit in which you posting your post and I agree.. if you are going to do an Altruistic, cultural preservation open source project of a game that is no longer on the market, you gotta watch what you are doing in terms of IP and RE... I am confident I've done my fair share of research, but it does help to have legal representation. More importantly by knowing where you stand before hand, will allow your legal arbitrator to focus on more important research to your favor... If anything these past few threads we've made at least achieved one thing.. allowing the vb community to be aware of what's tolerated and what's not in regards to the gaming community. Out of curiousity, have you posted anything to the vb community? You seem to a have a knack for certain things that would benefit the coding community.
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