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Title: question about copyright or your mods
Post by: GeomanNL on February 28, 2006, 12:34:29

Some of the mods are really cool, and I would like to include them in an open-source game which I'm working on. It'll take a while before the game is completed, if ever, but anyway ... am I allowed to use some of those mods ? I'm not going to make money with it! For example, I'd like to use waterdrop.it, centaurus01.it
I hope I can :)

Title: question about copyright or your mods
Post by: limestar on February 28, 2006, 13:11:47

Like with any other material, you'll have to ask the authors before using it.

Title: question about copyright or your mods
Post by: GeomanNL on February 28, 2006, 13:59:06

Aha... ok, thanks.

But ehm, "liquid velocity" by "pinion" is a nice piece of music, but it shows no contact information, and googling for his/her name doesn't help either. What should one do in such a case... to use or not to use, or to use with caution ?

Title: question about copyright or your mods
Post by: Ceekayed on February 28, 2006, 17:05:04

Well, it'd be more appropriate not to use a song that's author cannot be contacted by any means, but most people give the permission to use their music on freeware games, so it's really up to you. Just remember to credit the author if you use the song.

Title: question about copyright or your mods
Post by: limestar on March 01, 2006, 11:56:11

Bottom line is you can't use it unless you have permission. If you do anyway, you're doing something illegal, and there's no way to get around that. If you wanna do it anyway (causiously or not), is of course your choice. I'd suggest you don't, though.

My best suggestion for your case is to try to find the author - ask around these boards, check other songs by the same author for contact info, look for an artist page... such things.

Title: question about copyright or your mods
Post by: GeomanNL on March 01, 2006, 12:23:18

Well... after much googling I found an email address for pinion... sigh of relief :)

Title: question about copyright or your mods
Post by: Ceekayed on March 01, 2006, 12:54:26

Quote from: "GeomanNL"

Well... after much googling I found an email address for pinion... sigh of relief :)

Now you've to wish for a reply. Most of the emails from old authors are terribly outdated.  :?