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Off-topic (Locked) / Batch game and legal help
« on: May 10, 2014, 04:10:55 PM »
Hi Roguetemple community!
First of all, thanks for reading this bothering/boring/bad-written post and sorry if it's not the place for it ( hopefully, it is, but I'm not sure so I'm a bit scared while writting this). Also sorry for my bad spelling, English is not my mothertongue so it's a bit hard for me to write...
Ok, here I go:
I'm making a text-based role playing adventure with a strange humour (think of simon the sorcerer, diskworld, monkey island). The adventure has turn-based combat, roguelikish decisions (with a single option you choose wrong, the whole world could end in a explosion, or in a flower rain, or end just for your neighbour...). I'm also trying (this feature is not really done yet) to add a map in ascii (like ADOM, AlienRL, etc). -If I succeed doing it, I will post the results here in roguetemple or whatever you want so everyone can enjoy this pointless adventure for free-
The point is I'm making the whole game in Batch, so is gonna be open source and I have no troubles with this, everyone should be free to play, modify, enhance, add new content, destroy the world, etc. but I'm scared that someone take my code, release it with a payment license or something like that and say I stole "his/her" code, so I'll be in troubles. I have no idea how to protect myself and my code from this and still let the players/modders see and modify the game. I thought licensing it as... GPL? I don't know the terms, but an open source license should work. Are licenses free for the one who makes the code? I mean, is this gonna cost me money? I have 0.00$ but I just wanna people enjoy my work... Could you help me giving me clues of what should I do?
Again, thanks a lot for reading and lots of thanks for helping
First of all, thanks for reading this bothering/boring/bad-written post and sorry if it's not the place for it ( hopefully, it is, but I'm not sure so I'm a bit scared while writting this). Also sorry for my bad spelling, English is not my mothertongue so it's a bit hard for me to write...
Ok, here I go:
I'm making a text-based role playing adventure with a strange humour (think of simon the sorcerer, diskworld, monkey island). The adventure has turn-based combat, roguelikish decisions (with a single option you choose wrong, the whole world could end in a explosion, or in a flower rain, or end just for your neighbour...). I'm also trying (this feature is not really done yet) to add a map in ascii (like ADOM, AlienRL, etc). -If I succeed doing it, I will post the results here in roguetemple or whatever you want so everyone can enjoy this pointless adventure for free-
The point is I'm making the whole game in Batch, so is gonna be open source and I have no troubles with this, everyone should be free to play, modify, enhance, add new content, destroy the world, etc. but I'm scared that someone take my code, release it with a payment license or something like that and say I stole "his/her" code, so I'll be in troubles. I have no idea how to protect myself and my code from this and still let the players/modders see and modify the game. I thought licensing it as... GPL? I don't know the terms, but an open source license should work. Are licenses free for the one who makes the code? I mean, is this gonna cost me money? I have 0.00$ but I just wanna people enjoy my work... Could you help me giving me clues of what should I do?
Again, thanks a lot for reading and lots of thanks for helping