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All Developers Please Read...

Greg's use of objects is now clear....

@Bill, as long as he's only using objects from uploaded catalog of objects meant to be used in new freeware, I don't see the grounds for any argument. Of course he's allowed to use them.

@Greg, sounds like you're pretty active here. The next step is designing your own objects! Use a digital camera to create textures, and the argument becomes all moot. Its the parts that's most fun for me anyway.

I had a request about a year or two ago for an author to use my old structures for Tacoma Narrows from a freeware I first published as freeware for fs2002. I'd lost the models in a hard drive reformat, but I said he was welcome to decompiling them if he knew how. I wonder if the newly released KTIW uses them. The screenshots sure look like them! It's kind of flattering if someone liked those old models well enough to want to use them.

Bob
 
bob5568 said:
@Bill, as long as he's only using objects from uploaded catalog of objects meant to be used in new freeware, I don't see the grounds for any argument. Of course he's allowed to use them.
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I'm not sure if you've actually read the entire thread, but since there are only two "Bill's" in this thread, one of whom is me...

The original issue was that several parties copy-pasted portions of a commercial product's textures for use in their own freeware projects.

This is absolutely nothing less than copyright infringement. It is prima facie wrong...

There is no ambiguity here whatsoever.

Other respondents in this thread have brought up the extraneous issues concerning using parts of object libraries. I see nothing at all wrong or unethical about that.
 
yep, I see your point

Hi Bill, yes, you are right...I got caught up with Greg's issues that I forgot your original message.

Of course, I support you and all developers to have control over your work. Plagiarism is not appropriate.

Bob
 
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