[answering questions] did my openttd plugin is legal?
Posted: 05 Feb 2021, 08:41
A feature rich city builder game for Android, iOS and PC
https://www.forum.theotown.com/
Every plugin creator wants more diamond, that's why i came here,if you want talk my copyrights problem i explain soon, about GNU i know that, the problem is,the default bit of open TTD,is 16 bit meanwhile theotown is 8 bit(so far i know)Kamikazi wrote: ↑05 Feb 2021, 08:55Legally, yes. The OpenGFX (the graphics used for OpenTTD) has a GNU plublic license, meaning it is ok to use those frames for something else, even without mentioning the creators.
Morally, no. The only thing you did is just to pick the frames by just taking a screenshot of the ground and nothing else (i belive since the quality was garbage) . And you also charged it 32 diamonds so people can't get it with an ad so you get "paid more". So it just feel as lazy and cheap cash grab.
You get diamonds from ads, so you actually still earn more.Kiki012 wrote: ↑05 Feb 2021, 10:42Every plugin creator wants more diamond, that's why i came here,if you want talk my copyrights problem i explain soon, about GNU i know that, the problem is,the default bit of open TTD,is 16 bit meanwhile theotown is 8 bit(so far i know)Kamikazi wrote: ↑05 Feb 2021, 08:55Legally, yes. The OpenGFX (the graphics used for OpenTTD) has a GNU plublic license, meaning it is ok to use those frames for something else, even without mentioning the creators.
Morally, no. The only thing you did is just to pick the frames by just taking a screenshot of the ground and nothing else (i belive since the quality was garbage) . And you also charged it 32 diamonds so people can't get it with an ad so you get "paid more". So it just feel as lazy and cheap cash grab.
Not every plugin creator does plugins to get diamonds. A lot of them just do plugins for fun dude and don't care at all about diamonds.
I am pretty sure he said once that is he only 13 though-_-Kamikazi wrote: ↑05 Feb 2021, 15:56Not every plugin creator does plugins to get diamonds. A lot of them just do plugins for fun dude and don't care at all about diamonds.
You're just trying to hide the fact you just did this just to get diamond with least work possible by just saying that. Admit it, you just did that plugin to get diamonds the laziest way possible by just ""stealing"" some frames bcs you can't bother to do proper frames by yourself. This isn't your first time, you already ran into drama bcs of stealing frames. If you want diamonds and also save your reputation, how about just learning how to make a simple but high quality house. Every plugin creator stars with something small.
Ok and? Did I ask or mentioned here anything about his age?Derncho RBLX wrote: ↑05 Feb 2021, 18:19I am pretty sure he said once that is he only 13 though-_-Kamikazi wrote: ↑05 Feb 2021, 15:56Not every plugin creator does plugins to get diamonds. A lot of them just do plugins for fun dude and don't care at all about diamonds.
You're just trying to hide the fact you just did this just to get diamond with least work possible by just saying that. Admit it, you just did that plugin to get diamonds the laziest way possible by just ""stealing"" some frames bcs you can't bother to do proper frames by yourself. This isn't your first time, you already ran into drama bcs of stealing frames. If you want diamonds and also save your reputation, how about just learning how to make a simple but high quality house. Every plugin creator stars with something small.
Age doesn't mean you can't actually make good plugins dude
It depends on the person
I know,not all is want that,but to save my reputation may i made random/fictional building (in theotown style)(,Now im addicted with json and programing stuffKamikazi wrote: ↑05 Feb 2021, 15:56Not every plugin creator does plugins to get diamonds. A lot of them just do plugins for fun dude and don't care at all about diamonds.
You're just trying to hide the fact you just did this just to get diamond with least work possible by just saying that. Admit it, you just did that plugin to get diamonds the laziest way possible by just ""stealing"" some frames bcs you can't bother to do proper frames by yourself. This isn't your first time, you already ran into drama bcs of stealing frames. If you want diamonds and also save your reputation, how about just learning how to make a simple but high quality house. Every plugin creator stars with something small.
That's for the bestKiki012 wrote: ↑06 Feb 2021, 07:00I know,not all is want that,but to save my reputation may i made random/fictional building (in theotown style)(,Now im addicted with json and programing stuffKamikazi wrote: ↑05 Feb 2021, 15:56Not every plugin creator does plugins to get diamonds. A lot of them just do plugins for fun dude and don't care at all about diamonds.
You're just trying to hide the fact you just did this just to get diamond with least work possible by just saying that. Admit it, you just did that plugin to get diamonds the laziest way possible by just ""stealing"" some frames bcs you can't bother to do proper frames by yourself. This isn't your first time, you already ran into drama bcs of stealing frames. If you want diamonds and also save your reputation, how about just learning how to make a simple but high quality house. Every plugin creator stars with something small.), somehow I improve my pixel art skills
(By googling pixel art)
Wekabu city wrote: ↑06 Feb 2021, 13:17No it is NOT legal in it's current form asI highly recommend to read what the GPLv2 is first though
- The license must be included in a shape or form
- The original authors must be credited (you are crediting the wrong guys - OpenGFX is the team responsible for the sprites)
- You must inherit the license (right now it's all rights reserved)
https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenGFX#50-license
On a moral standpoint I think that trying to leach of the Free / Libre Open Source software movement is the most amoral thing you can do. While I get that you want to get some quick diamonds, you should at least attempt to give something back to the community. If everyone would behave like that a large part of OpenJDK system would collapse, thus slowly killing Theotown (you can't stay on Java 8 forever and if the devs are already on OpenJDK 9+ then it will be even faster) along with a few other things (like Minecraft). Mostly this isn't as extreme as this but it can still lead to very serious issues like heartbleed (a bug in the seriously underfunded OpenSSL project) which can create millions in damages.
wat. the only OpenTTD-related contributions are https://github.com/OpenTTD/team/issues/92 and https://github.com/pelya/openttd-android/issues/8.