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About engine licensing

Postby caioromao » Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:14 am

Hello there,

I'd like to say that your engine's concept's gotten me quite intrested. I haven't dugg it deep yet but it seems to be great. Congratulations!

So, um, have you guys already thought about your code's licensing? I'd love to use this engine if it were OpenSourced :)

Cheers!
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Postby Turkey Man » Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:29 am

I have actually thought about it :)
And I'd love to apply an open source license!...
But... At this stage, I work for a software company where my contract is a little grey.. My contract technically states I'm allowed to work on code outside work and retain ownership of code I write, which is a good thing. But I run a risk that my code looks too much like my code at work, and could appear to be plagerised (which it definitely isn't, but it could appear that way to the untrained eye since I use the same styles, habits and terminology both at work and after hours).. What I need to do is get someone from work with the authority to make a call to have a look over it and validate that its not work code and its okay for me to release. Unfortunately, not many people at work are comfortable to make such a judgement in case it turns out to be a bad decision down the track and they become liable, and people with the proper authority generally don't have a lot of programming experience.. So until I can sort that out, it remails unlicensed.

If you're interested in the project, I could grant you personal usage rights to have a play with, with the agreement it wouldn't be distributed in source. At least until I can sort out the licensing problems.
Binary distribution is fine.
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Postby caioromao » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:43 am

Hey that's nice to read! :)

Unfortunatelly I can't safelly abide to a no-source-distribution clause because I don't have a computer I can actually call completelly mine (I live with 12 friends in a house and generally program at my univ's public computers). So I don't think it'd be secure for me and for you to keep the sources with myself.

I'll keep an eye here (a dev blog would be nice, to keep it sindicated ;]) and maybe bring some other people's eyes to this project.

Thanks for the reply
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Postby Turkey Man » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:11 am

Hey thanks for your interest :)

And thanks for the ideas. I think i will put a news feed on the main site (fuji.dotblip.com). That seems like a smart thing to do..

It would be nice to get a little more interest. Even now it would be cool to see if a few people are interested in using it even in a binary distribution. It would really help me discover issues and find bugs.. But i understand that most people would want a source release. We'll see how that go's in time.
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