Recent content by dagid4

Ah, now I understand :) As I said, I'm not a lawyer (but it is interesting for me). I didn't know that NDA cannot be made without contract. EDIT: I know I'm probably a little annoying. But how is then possible NDA for players? For example Age of Empires have this NDA - Age of Empires

I know it's not possible with ServUO/RunUO, because it is GPLv2 :) I was talking about GPLv3. ServUO is derived from RunUO. You would need to also find all authors of RunUO. I don't think this is possible. EDIT: AGPL would be a disaster. All Shards would have to release their source code. Not...

Ok, you cannot limit the "distribution" in NDA (this is mentioned in FAQ, actually there is nothing about NDA in the license itself). But, Can you state in NDA that the work will be provided in the GPLv3 exclusive mode? I don't see a problem in this.

The most important thing about the exclusive work for GPLv3 is by my opinion: "...on terms that prohibit them from making any copies of your copyrighted material outside their relationship with you." This is guaranteed by author laws (at least in my country). One cannot simply take my...

About the NDA for GPLv2, read it carefully: "This is permitted because in this case no GPL-covered code is being distributed". If you give someone access to your repo (and it is not an employee nor contractor) then by GPLv2 it is considered distributed. You cannot put NDA on distributed code...

Well but there is nothing about that it must be a contractor. This is what OpenAI told me (I know it can be wrong, please correct if it is): Under the GPLv3, there is no specific requirement as to what kind of third party the people who are authorized to make modifications to the software...

I know that I promised last post, but this may be interesting. It seems that for GPLv3 this is no longer true: So they addressed this problem. Unfortunately RunUO/ServUO is released specifically with GPLv2, so no option to upgrade :(

Last post in this topic from me :) I want to apologize for misleading posts about your code is your code. It seems that under GPL, this is not true (everyone can legaly steal your code if he get access to it). I wasn't aware of this. Next time I will check the license more thoroughly and...

Thanks for the clarification. Lot of interesting things about GPL. If this is true, then the NDA is basically useless for voluntary development. Maybe GPL was not the best choice for Shard development. Im all in for sharing nice features, bugfixes and improving the emulator itself with the...

Well I'm not saying it would be easy to win such a law case :) It also depends on the country you are living. When it is just a small hobby, then okay. But I knew shards with thousands of invested hours. In 2000s the bigest shard in my country even paid a TV spot (costing them a lot of money)...

Under the assumption that you don't make money from UO (which he is making, so screw him)... emulator its self is legal and if someone releases your code without permission, I would sue him even without NDA. You can chose wisely as you want, but when the team becomes bigger and people are...

I want to add that I don't support money profiting from UO emulators at all. It is disgusting to profit on someone else game. For the NDA, I know one local shard that required it. Just to make sure that you won't release other contributors work against their will. I think this is completely...

Still, you don't have to release your own code, even if it is only 10%. Your code is your code, I wouldn't laugh at someone rights to his code.

I understand both sides. Sometimes there is a competition between shards. If you've build a shard from ground, made nice features, have a lot of players, you don't want some newcomers to steal your work and release it, or make a copy shard. On the other side. Your work (if you provide it free)...

You send a link and don't even read it. Any character including Unicode characters (even emojis) can be used, with only few exceptions. I'm sure .NET complies with these rules: