Vincenzo_Beretta
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Joined: 3/13/2001 From: Milan, Italy Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Cdr Sylvester Vincenzo, you should learn to read. Here's an extract from Darren's latest files: Harpoon Users' Database or HUD3 is maintained by Darren Buckley in direct co-operation with Advanced Gaming Systems Inc. (AGSI). Neither the Editor (Darren Buckley) or AGSI provide any warranty in relation to this Content as provided with Harpoon3 ANW 3.10. This Database may not be used for any commercial purpose or copied for use in any other Harpoon3 Advanced Naval Warfare Database, without the express written permission and agreement of Darren Buckley. I felt free to make bold the interesting part. Your version dates from 2009, this one from 2011, and the most recent is the one that rules. So where is the written agreement from Darren? Show us your fake. Thank you for focusing upon the relevant part of the waiver. Since the PlayersDB is not used for commercial purposes, that entire "express written permission" requirement is irrelevant. Therefore, the only requirement is: You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the HUD3 and all or parts of it's underlying models. You may also edit or adapt the HUD3 database to your own needs. By doing so you are agreeing to fully attribute Darren Buckley as the Editor of the HUD-II and HUD3 databases and you agree to include this information with your own Database's XML file as used in the Harpoon 3 ANW Launcher. Of course, your blunder is totally understandable and common for those ignorant with regards to Copyright law. As someone who works with copyrights on a daily basis, I am happy to educate you upon these matters. As long as a work is done for free and distributed freely, copyright does not apply. This is how scenarios and databases for ALL games are made. However, if anyone (you included) should try to sell your database or scenario, then you would be inviolation of AGSI and Matrix copyrights. If you don't believe me, go ahead and try it and see how fast their lawyers contact you. quote:
ORIGINAL: Cdr Sylvester And for HUD4, I still wait for my permission given to Herman to import HUD4 into Reimer Editor. Where it is? Reimer editor isn't of a restricted use, what is restricted use is to import somebody else's database without this person's consent. Actually, it isn't restricted to import a database into a tool provided by AGSI. AGSI has provided this tool to their customers and have placed no such restriction upon its use. Since you are just another user and neither represent nor speak for AGSI, your opinion is irrelevant. The database is being examined (as allowed by AGSI) and none of the information is being used as part of any derivative work. Therefore, no restriction can apply. As this is also done with no commercial benefit, copyright is, once again, irrelevant. quote:
ORIGINAL: Cdr Sylvester And stop telling that reminding original Players' Database is other people's work plundered is "parroting", you'll never escape this proven fact. Feel free to associate yourself with whom you want, but don't defend what can't be defended. Throwing a tantrum and demanding everyone share in your delusion does not make it true. I would be happy to stop that once you actually provide first-hand evidence to the contrary and make a statement that is actually yours and not simply parroting that of another. To all the readers: I'm sorry to see a forum devoted to a game's enjoyment becoming once again the opportunity to rethread old, tired, debunked flamewars. Unfortunatly, I have no control about it. I fully expect in the near future to see another forum (or even, alas, this very one again) molested by the same re-heated leftovers, like if what we saw here never happened. We have Harpoon, a flawed but good game made even better by its Db editing feature. Soon we will have Command: another game which shows great promise and whose designers decided to take a different approach to thrid-party modding. I think we can look forward to a lot of modern naval warfare enjoyment. Meanwhile, as I said, I cannot guarantee that we will not see the next naked streaker pass by. Unluckly, in Harpoon this isn't a bug but a feature Fair winds and following seas! Vincenzo
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