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   <H1>[Nel] Something I don't understand about the license agreement.</H1>
    <B>x5101920@fedro.ugr.es</B> 
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Jared Mark escribi�:

&gt;<i> I just want to make sure I understand this right... I use this source
</I>&gt;<i> code to build the base of my game...I do all sorts of work to make my
</I>&gt;<i> own game built around this core engine...I then try to get people to
</I>&gt;<i> play the game...
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> #Sound easy, it is hard.
</I>&gt;<i>  People get the game (for free, or at least, for the cost of shipping
</I>&gt;<i> it, but no profit can be made on that...)
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> #Fucking HTML messages!!!
</I>&gt;<i> #Ok, with GPL you can sell it and make money but you CAN'T forbid the
</I>&gt;<i> buyer to sell, copy, or hire it.
</I>&gt;<i>  I charge for the monthly service to the game, and make boat loads of
</I>&gt;<i> money...
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> #And why people would pay for your service!?
</I>&gt;<i> #It isn't a easy thing But then, because of the way this license
</I>&gt;<i> reads, someone else can request the entire source code to my game, set
</I>&gt;<i> up their own game that's exactly like mine, and charge people to use
</I>&gt;<i> it just like I am doing... So if all of the above is correct... what
</I>&gt;<i> is the point of me making my game using NeL in the first place?  When
</I>&gt;<i> someone can just steal my entire game (not just the NeL source, but
</I>&gt;<i> all of the &quot;derivitive works&quot; that are packaged with it as a whole),
</I>&gt;<i> and run the game service themselves... basically, taking me out of the
</I>&gt;<i> loop entirely.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> #Well, the code is GPL, but the GFX, SFX, History, and so aren't GPL
</I>&gt;<i> so you can't copy them. ( isn't this true? )
</I>&gt;<i> #Someone don't steal but derive the work, if this happens you have two
</I>&gt;<i> options:
</I>&gt;<i> #a) Forgive your project and join then
</I>&gt;<i> #b) Use their modifications ( that are GPL ) to make yours better. If
</I>&gt;<i> I'm completely off here, I appologise.  I'm extremely new to the whole
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;open source&quot; thing...
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> # Well, Open Source is like Fire for the Primitive mens. Someone scary
</I>&gt;<i> and others just get hot near it.
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