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Wow, this comment is far removed from reality. The copyright holders are the only ones allowed by law to modify and or distribute the game or any of its parts u
by gmueckl 7y ago
Wow, this comment is far removed from reality. The copyright holders are the only ones allowed by law to modify and or distribute the game or any of its parts unless they hand out licenses. In other words, touching leaked source code is pretty much illegal. It is mostly a question of how long it takes until they will bother to send lawyers after you if you do.
Game develipers often don't own the thengames they are working on. Nost publishing contracts transfer the rights to the publisher and all the studio gets is the money. So, the devs cannot do anything after they ar eww done with a project. It is up to the publishers to decide what to do with it. And these guys are bean counters fist, otherwise they wouldn't be able to run the core of their business the way they do (that is risk distribution between individual game projects). So unless you can give them a solid business case for releasing anything for free, they won't do it. So you need to prove to them iwith decent numbers that this works. Good luck with that.
- iforgotpassword 7y agoAfter you sure you replied to the right comment? I don't think I said anywhere it would be legal. My post was about how released sources could actually be beneficial to the IP holder.
- kjeetgill 7y agoConfusingly, the "you" in the parents post was meant to reffer to "you, the copyright holder" not "You, the pirate".