[Arianne-devel] Re: [Arianne-general] Copyright Issues

[<l.d...@fr...>]

Well i think u should read this link and take a look at the open source 
licenses, it could help u a bit until someone comes with a very nice answer on 
the mailing list...

http://www.opensource.org/

i hope it gonna help u

En réponse à Brian Thompson <bri...@ho...>:

> 
> Yes, I am concerned about copyrights.  I am concerned that anyday of the
> 
> week a corporation could take our ideas for its own and turn them into a
> 
> profit machine.  We have done the work, more or less, and we deserve to
> see 
> the game become a reality without the threat of a corporation taking the
> 
> "IDEA" of what we are doing.  I am not as concerned about the code, but
> more 
> about the ideas.  A game based on our ideas may be more valuable to a 
> company that is willing to pay coders to start off with code from
> scratch.  
> We are creating a "way" of doing things and that is important.  I would
> like 
> to know that our ideas will remain free, but not free to anyone to use
> that 
> wants to make money off of them.  I would like every aspect of the game
> to 
> be free, but not to corporations to make profit.  What in the GPL
> prevents a 
> corporation from stealing our most priced possessions?  What keeps our
> ideas 
> free, but prevents others from profitting from them?
> 
> For now I will continue to work on the ideas we have already discussed
> and 
> will continue to produce, but I am not will to broadcast the ideas so
> that 
> companies can profit.
> 
> Is there a legal expert attached to sourceforge that can help, or are we
> on 
> our own(are we on our own or are the corporations listening already?)? 
> I 
> would like to add one statement, all material that I have submitted to
> this 
> list is to be considered under joint ownership as a copyright I will
> split 
> its owership with any INDIVIDUAL that has submitted ideas to the 
> list(because you have all influenced what I have written), but those 
> INDIVIDUALS must acknowledge singular ownership and not forfeit/give the
> 
> ownership to another individual or corporation.  I also concede that 
> anything that I have submitted to the group shall be handled as the
> leader 
> (Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin) deems fitting.
> 
> I will continue to work on the ideas of the group and interact with the
> 
> group, but the work will remain on my computer.  I consider anything
> that I 
> produce related to the idea of a fantasy game the property of the
> Arianne 
> group, but I am concerned and until I know that it is safe to be
> broadcast 
> then it will stay with me.
> 
> Brian Thompson
> 
> 
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