06-17-2017, 02:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-17-2017, 03:12 AM by Kendotlibero.)
ok, people are pissed off for three reasons:
1. gta, since the early days, saied in the manual that modding is ok, as long it isn't for commercial use
2. Rockstar actively promoted mods of the game, since they really like that kind of thing, check their blog.
3. Rockstar didn't do anything, it was gta's pubblisher's fault
as for software, like cars, the company that made the game owns the intellectual propiety of the game, not the game copy itself. That's why reverse engeneering is 100% legal and falls into fair use, as long you don't copy-paste the code from the original souce in your product.
as for the license agreement, it's true that they can change it to their hearts' content, but it's kind of a dick move, considering how the gta modding community is huge and passionate, and making that illegal it only means that a huge portion of fans will be turned down from that.
as for the "modding is illegal" thing, it's only true for gta IV and V now, modding isn't illegal in general, it all depends from the guy that owns the intellectual propiety: you can mod doom like you want, and even see the souce code, since id pubblished it with the open source licence.
1. gta, since the early days, saied in the manual that modding is ok, as long it isn't for commercial use
2. Rockstar actively promoted mods of the game, since they really like that kind of thing, check their blog.
3. Rockstar didn't do anything, it was gta's pubblisher's fault
as for software, like cars, the company that made the game owns the intellectual propiety of the game, not the game copy itself. That's why reverse engeneering is 100% legal and falls into fair use, as long you don't copy-paste the code from the original souce in your product.
as for the license agreement, it's true that they can change it to their hearts' content, but it's kind of a dick move, considering how the gta modding community is huge and passionate, and making that illegal it only means that a huge portion of fans will be turned down from that.
as for the "modding is illegal" thing, it's only true for gta IV and V now, modding isn't illegal in general, it all depends from the guy that owns the intellectual propiety: you can mod doom like you want, and even see the souce code, since id pubblished it with the open source licence.