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This is nice, but can you please disclose the political views of your lawyers and C-suite? It seems that if a user happens to have a subjective political disagr
by cookiecaper 10y ago
This is nice, but can you please disclose the political views of your lawyers and C-suite? It seems that if a user happens to have a subjective political disagreement with someone at CryTek, the license to use CryEngine can be revoked per section 2.4, which states:
"use the CryEngine for the development of any Games which are harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, vulgar, sexually explicit, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, or in a reasonable person's view, objectionable;"
- abiox 10y ago> if a user happens to have a subjective political disagreement given that politics tends to be much more qualitative than quantitative, it's unclear that any "political disagreement" can be anything other than "subjective".
- cookiecaper 10y agoYes, I agree. I added "subjective" not because it uniquely qualifies the type of political disagreement, but because it emphasizes that your game's life is dependent on never having a simple disagreement with any present or future employee of CryTek. If the license to the engine is pulled, it would probably mean you have to start your project over from scratch.
- greggman 10y agoJust checking but you do realize Creative Commons Licenses have this same clause. They call it "moral rights". When I asked about it I was told it's a right many countries require them to respect so it's in the license. Note: I'm just as horrified as you about that clause but it's in every CC license AFAICT