The more we harp on license, the less we can actually save. The problem isn't that it's GPL. The p problem is that GPL is as much a part of the copywrong system as any other license. Three years is inordinately long to support an offline game like that, especially a licensed one. And frankly, I think in the license wars, I have to back Nickelodeon over GNU-GPL folks.
The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
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Re: The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
The constants mentioned are the following: "01234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" and "01234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" It's very possible that separate implementations of this function would use those same constants. It's not as if they're some completely arbitrary strings.
When these constants don't appear elsewhere in the source? And what, they'd have another implementation of this function, but have a different one with their code because... reasons?
I mean, if you got "the source code" for a project at my work, you might get the raw source for Project A and then a bunch of already compiled libraries we put together for use, some of which could do similar things to existing code.
But yah it's probably from Linux, I just don't think the constants alone are a smoking gun.
Re: The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
#103How many KB or lines is the vsprintf implementation they used? Just curious.
227 lines, 4.62 kB. https://github.com/zavg/linux-0.01/blob/5839d67d5825265fc665...
Re: The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Someone" owns the rights. They too bought the burden of copyright violation.
Assets do sometimes just go nowhere.
Especially when they're heavily encumbered assets, e.g. when they're part of a licensed game whose license expired long ago. (Like this one!)
Re: The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
#105Love clicking on twitter links and being completely confused. They've just stopped showing threads and replies on the non-JS page anymore. This is what we see, and this does appear to be a recent change: https://imgur.com/94u95no there's nothing below this, this is the full page.
But imgur works without JS?
I don't understand what imgur has to do with Twitter deciding to stop serving content to browsers with JS disabled?
I was just trying to explain why some of us were confused -- until I tweaked NoScript, the first tweet is shown by itself and is sort of perplexing without the rest of the thread as context.
Re: The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That's not how asset sales work. The new copyright owner wouldn't be liable for the previous copyright owner's actions. And if the new copyright owner isn't distributing binaries that include the GPL code they haven't violated the GPL. Interesting, so even if the new copyright holder profited off of the asset, they wouldn't have to comply with the GPL? This is an interesting parallel to real estate, where the last…
The violation is in the distribution. If the current copyright holder distributed copies then he violated the license but more than likely they simply own the copyright to the code and other IP but haven't distributed anything.
So form a company
Profit from blatant copyright infringement
When the court case eventually comes, wind up the company, move the assets to another company, and you’re quids in
Re: The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
The violation is in the distribution. If the current copyright holder distributed copies then he violated the license but more than likely they simply own the copyright to the code and other IP but haven't distributed anything.
So form a company Profit from blatant copyright infringement When the court case eventually comes, wind up the company, move the assets to another company, and you’re quids in
The law does not work like technology and code. A judge would see through that in a heartbeat and go “You thought that would work? You’re kidding, right?”.
Re: The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
#108How does using GPL impact a SaaS product?
Depends on which GPL, basic GPL can be sidestepped. The Aferro GPL (AGPL) was made specifically to handle the SaaS case.
Re: The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you read the full thread they took the vsprintf() implementation from the Linux kernel circa year 2000.
The proof for that seems to be the existance of 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz I guess this comment is now a) vsprintf and b) a gpl violation, too.
Surely your comment isn't a GPL violation! If so then I am going to release a GPL project with every word in the dictionary, so that all comments are GPL violations.
Re: The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
#110When I was in games the moment I saw the letters GPL was the moment I closed the tab. GPL code is too dangerous to even read. Stay far far away and hope no one screws up and poisons your entire codebase.
But that's the point, isn't it? Are you developing free software? By all means use this GPL library! You are developing proprietary software? Well, too bad, you don't get to use this code. Either develop it by yourself or look somewhere else. Not that what I'm saying is contrary to what you said, I'm just pointing out that it's by design.