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Offline Art

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Re: Classic Amiga games coming to Android via Google Play
« on: July 24, 2013, 12:42:01 PM »
Quote from: nicholas;741883

Anyone want to place bets on them violating the GPL as well as selling games they don't own the copyrights to?


How do you think that will happen if they are prepared to give away the UAE
source void of the actual game disk image?
I imagine for individual game distributions, the same emu could be used,
so that only a single UAE package applies to all games until they modify UAE.
 

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Re: Classic Amiga games coming to Android via Google Play
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2013, 02:59:38 PM »
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Given that they will most likely be selling games they don't own the copyright to what makes you think they'll respect the rights of those who wrote UAE?


Because giving away the source for whatever UAE they use has no cost,
even if commercially motivated,
it's already out there for every mobile platform.

But not complying does introduce risk.
Particularly where GPL and iOS are concerned.
It would be gone quickly.
 

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Re: Classic Amiga games coming to Android via Google Play
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2013, 03:05:22 PM »
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Perhaps they're not selling anything but a premise.

Pretending to own a game, I think, could work, unless the wrong person saw it and it was challenged.
Messing around with GPL license is a bit "in your face".

EDIT,,,
Droid has a number of ppl working on open UAE implementations.
A commercially driven thing would have to add to an emulated game on that platform.
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