[QUOTE=Carocrazy;24651149]You cannot prove that your code is a derivative work. As I said you could have another program that uses the same text for the functions but the functions work completely differently. No where in any of my codes does it say DeriveGamemode("GARRY NEWMANS GAME LOL"). They are text files and you CAN get a copyright on them.[/QUOTE]
Blueprint 2, gamemode\nexus\sh_nexus.lua, line 2843:
[lua]DeriveGamemode("Sandbox");[/lua]
Sandbox, gamemode\init.lua
[lua]/*---------------------------------------------------------
Sandbox Gamemode
This is GMod's default gamemode
---------------------------------------------------------*/
include( "player_extension.lua" )
GM.Name = "Sandbox"
GM.Author = "TEAM GARRY"
GM.Email = "teamgarry@garrysmod.com"
GM.Website = "www.garrysmod.com"[/lua]
Try removing that line from Blueprint, test if it even remotely works.
It wouldn't use the same "text" because it's not text, it's functions, hooks, methods, classes, variables, systems, scripts, binaries. It can NOT be run without GMod, and without the Source engine, I want you to try and run it using the default Windows libraries, and see how far you get to.
You can not get a copyright on them simply because nor Garry nor Valve have given you the rights to THEIR work.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;24643088]A few communities were able to purchase (mostly) working copies of PERP2, but after a week or so Hunts basically left them to fix it by themselves it seems.[/QUOTE]
Ah so that is what I missed in 3 months, but anyways might as well since people are fleeing from PERP.
Buy the gamemode, sell it out for 1/10 the normal price.
[QUOTE=Plurbus;24237776]For the last time I'm gonna state this..
No. It's not illegal. Theres several documents stating in the Valve games, that all money made from this game is to the respectful owners of the gamemode, blah blah blah, and all money sent to Valve is of donation.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure it is illegal, think it's called Profiteering or something. It's like how it's illegal to buy a multi-pack of cans and then sell them singularly.
Ive seen that some of these are going for over 80.00. Like it says, dont buy it, Pandora will convert the battery and memstick for you for free well asside from getting the battery and memstick But then again, how much is a battery?? and How much is a memstick?? Even on ebay, youd probably pay 20 for the 1G minimum required and about 15 for the battery, thats only 25 more, and its done for you. Just remember, you need to use an EXTRA battery for this because it will be unusable as a regular battery after conversion.
Why would anyone pay more than $5 for a gamemode?
[QUOTE=Someoneuduno;24862981]Pretty sure it is illegal, think it's called Profiteering or something. It's like how it's illegal to buy a multi-pack of cans and then sell them singularly.[/QUOTE]
It's not illegal to do that. The companies only write NOT TO BE SOLD SEPARATELY so that shop owners will sell the more expensive single cans. A lot of well known restaurants in my area sell multipack cans.
It's also not illegal to sell lua scripts. Imagine you write a windows application. Your program cannot work without the windows API or underlying code, yet you're still allowed to sell it. This is because the code that [b]you write[/b] is [b]your work[/b] and the creator of the work owns the copyright to it. Not valve. No matter what it says in their EULA. For all they know you could be writing code based entirely on the documentation provided by garry which is publicly available on the internet.
