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My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by bayindirh »

alt227 wrote: post #10
leononame wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree - even if they're legally allowed to just take his work, it would've been nice to let OP know.

Considering they fully own all of the IP present in the OPs work, I would imagine they are within their full rights to just take it without asking. OP is lucky not to get a takedown notice and judging by his attitude he knows it. Good to see people playing nicely together :)

It’s MIT licensed. They don’t need to ask. They need to add his name to credits and/or send an email about what they did.

It’s basic courtesy (plus MIT license, if you prefer).

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by s-macke »

alt227 wrote: post #10
leononame wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree - even if they're legally allowed to just take his work, it would've been nice to let OP know.

Considering they fully own all of the IP present in the OPs work, I would imagine they are within their full rights to just take it without asking. OP is lucky not to get a takedown notice and judging by his attitude he knows it. Good to see people playing nicely together :)

The games were already playable online on archive.org [1]. My project is just focussed on the old flight simulators.

Especially I wanted to have a very light-weight emulator which starts within milliseconds. The major part of the emulator downloads with just 24kB compressed. I suppose I have reached the goal.

[1] https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

#14

Post by ilyt »

s-macke wrote: post #6
shadeslayer_ wrote: post #2

Strange that Microsoft used OP's project in their game, but didn't bother to let him know.

Yes, I was not informed about it. But I think that's fair. I didn't ask them either before I published the project. Please, don't make it a license issue. I developed it for fun.

Well, the MIT license worked exactly as it was written.

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by ilyt »

bayindirh wrote: post #11
alt227 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering they fully own all of the IP present in the OPs work, I would imagine they are within their full rights to just take it without asking. OP is lucky not to get a takedown notice and judging by his attitude he knows it. Good to see people playing nicely together :)

It’s MIT licensed. They don’t need to ask. They need to add his name to credits and/or send an email about what they did. It’s basic courtesy (plus MIT license, if you prefer).

You need to use 3 or 4 clause BSD not MIT if you want to get in credits.

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

#16

Post by low_tech_love »

ilyt wrote: post #14
s-macke wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I was not informed about it. But I think that's fair. I didn't ask them either before I published the project. Please, don't make it a license issue. I developed it for fun.

Well, the MIT license worked exactly as it was written.

What about "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."?

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by gillesjacobs »

ajdegol wrote: post #17

Why can’t I view GitHub on mobile without having to sign in to the app. I don’t want to sign in to the app; I don’t remember my password; I can’t be bothered to authenticate. Bad UX.

I agree it's annoying, but you can open links in another tab from the long-press option menu in nearly every mobile browser instead of using app-urls.

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by luch »

shadeslayer_ wrote: post #2

Strange that Microsoft used OP's project in their game, but didn't bother to let him know.

Microsoft is not the developer here, it has been outsourced to a game studio : https://www.asobostudio.com/games/microsoft-flight-simulator

But the remark still stand, and I hope OP has been correctly credited for it.

Re: My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

#20

Post by iforgotpassword »

ajdegol wrote: post #17

Why can’t I view GitHub on mobile without having to sign in to the app. I don’t want to sign in to the app; I don’t remember my password; I can’t be bothered to authenticate. Bad UX.

Uninstall the app? Sounds rather useless when you don't log in to it.
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