Ok, let's just say that I'm am seriously annoyed now. I will now address any issues which some of you may have.
Re: vB Tetris
1. vB Tetris is not the flash tetris game. It is the hack which allows a scoreboard to be kept of high scores in a GPL game.
2. As a GPL game I can legally distribute it.
3. That's exactly what I'm doing.
Re: The Arcade Hack
1. This, like vB Tetris is a HACK. It's packaged as a hack. All of the games in it are GPL, it is legal for me to distribute them.
2. People who have sent me donatations are not paying for any games. I'm giving them the arcade hack, I AM NOT SELLING FLASH GAMES. Once again, this is legal. If it makes people happy I'll send it as two files - one with the hack in, and one with the games in.
3. I no longer intend to ever release this hack to the public, due to the issues raised here.
Since you ahead post it so I guess I should add some bit information. After I email these makers to make sure about GPL, since I m not really fully knowledge with GPL rules anyway I got odd email from one of makers said that they got several complaints about their games "sell" at vb.org. So it force me to email to John about sell issues. But John now clear up about it with me and I email them already that it is not their games that which "sell" but only hack.
Also reason for this email, I dont want to have them sue John for this reason since I dont know who email them several of "complaints" emails, that maker refuse to name whos. I respect John and his works, I want to have him continue his amazing hacks at here so I have to speed up and clear up with these makers.
I just hope selling hacks doesn't get practice, because when everybody is doing this it's getting expensive and I'm going back to phpBB2, there it's free of charge :banana:
It is true that selling of hacks is viewed as a bit of a no-no, but you have got to remember that John has put a lot of time and hard work into developing the arcade hack, and it's only fair that he gets rewarded for it.
If the author is happy to give away some code for free, for whatever reason (promotion, kindness, whatever) then cool. if not, all you can do is respect their wishes?
After all, when you goto work each day, do you do it for free?
Originally posted by Schorsch I just hope selling hacks doesn't get practice, because when everybody is doing this it's getting expensive and I'm going back to phpBB2, there it's free of charge :banana:
What?! I released the standard version (the Tetris hack), the arcade hack was supposed to be a special feature rich version for myself. But now the original isn't good enough... :banana:
From what I can see no one is selling anything, this has all got blown out of proportion.
I like John's hack, and John has been very good in supporting his hack. I am sure his time is valuable just like everyone elses.
I don't think he is looking for "pay me or else" perhaps the way it should have been said was "if you like my hack please send me a donation for beer money"
I hope John continues with his work and the Arcade is released to the public.
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08-21-2002, 04:55 PM
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