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Should be fine so long as he isn’t profiting. They are in openRA and that’s an open source version of red alert.
by suifbwish 5y ago
Should be fine so long as he isn’t profiting. They are in openRA and that’s an open source version of red alert.
- baud147258 5y agoI would think that OpenRA can use the Telsa coils (and other copyrighted elements) because it's a mod for Command & Conquer, which wouldn't be transferable to another project unrelated to C&C
- wingerlang 5y agoIt's not a mod, but as far as I know they simply do not distribute the sprites and content themselves.
- dustymcp 5y agoYou dont need a copy to Play openra
- suifbwish 5y agoYou don’t. I just installed it yesterday on a new Linux laptop. What’s interesting about openra is you can run multiple copies at the same time on the same machine to play against yourself for fun
- wingerlang 5y agoI know, but the files are still not distributed by Open RA, they are downloaded during the installation from the C&C distributor.
- baud147258 5y agoit's not a mod, but regarding the assets owned by EA, it's using the license granted by the 'C&C Franchise Modding Guidelines' [0], so that's why I used that word [0]https://www.openra.net/download/ https://www.openra.net/download/
- wingerlang 5y agoFair enough
- DrBoring 5y ago> Should be fine so long as he isn’t profiting I don't think that is a valid legal argument. Based on the last ownership of Westwood Studios, EA probably owns the rights to the Red Alert sprites. So "should be fine" depends on how litigious EA chooses to be.
- suifbwish 5y agoTrue but it’s probably safer than having characters that look like Mickey Mouse
- SketchySeaBeast 5y agoMy first instinct when I see EA is to assume the worst, but they've allowed "Return of Reckoning" (an unlicensed version of their now closed MMO: "Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning") to remain operating for years now so I really have no idea.