Re: [Nel] Congratulations + concerns

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> Then you take the GPL game rules on the other side of the API, delete
> them,
> and write your totally new rules, using only the API.  Tah da, they are
> yours, and you don't have to release your code to anyone.  The game
> rules
> are a separate binary (library, .o file) just like the game data.  Use
> dynamically linked libraries if you want more separation.  (But I'm
> pretty
> sure that when compiling proprietary apps (see below) under GNU/Linux,
> at
> least some GPL code gets bound directly in.  Also, the concept of
> "contamination" my apply, but hey, we are talking a GAME here.  Do you
> really think anyone is going to bother suing you?  Unlikely I think. )

You are totally wrong...
Please go and read about LIBRARY and GPL License...

What ever you link to a GPL app MUST be GPL. :)
So you have to publish your source under GPL.

And yes you will be sued... you are using the work of thousand of people and 
you 
can't share a few stupid lines of code!?!?!?!... 

> This is the same as developing proprietary apps on GNU/Linux.  GNU/Linux
> provides a public, GPL'd API, but the app you write that interfaces to
> that API is totally your own.

You are wrong again...
>From what I understood by a mail from FSF, the only way you have to skip GPL 
>is:
1) Get a License from Nel.
2) Code the whole client under a different license. Unless the Net protocol is 
propietary... that I think it is not the case.

 
> (I'm pretty sure that when compiling proprietary apps under GNU/Linux,
> at
> least some GPL code gets bound directly in, though this doesn't seem to
> bother anyone.  Also, the concept of "contamination" may apply, but hey,
> we
> are talking a GAME here.  Do you really think anyone is going to bother
> suing you for GPL license violation?  Unlikely I think, unless you
> really do
> overtly violate the license. )

No, it is not the same... Please ask a lawyer about it, he will explain it more 
clearly that I can.

IMO if someone violate even a bit the license i set, I will sue him.

Regards.

                  Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin

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