Again for anybody working on their own games or who does software. Avoid this like the plague.
Just a quick question, why? Is it because Take2 or Rockstar will come after anyone that they think copied their code, or are there a lot of bad practices used in GTA5’s code?
Because even the possibility that you implemented somebody else’s proprietary code from memory or inspiration opens up a lot of legal issues.
And while you may win there’s no winners when you or your employer has to pay your side of legal fees. It’s best to just avoid it to make that process easier.
Depends on which country you’re in. I would bet if you do it in Russia there will be zero consequences.
when you or your employer has to pay your side of legal fees
Where I live, the losing side must pay for all legal fees
Also to add to this, you are disqualified from contributing code to the WINE project if you’ve seen parts of the Windows source code for this exact same reason.
There’s no way this is true. I can literally think of similar code as what’s in GTA V, I have never opened the link. Does that open me up to a law suit? That’s crazy.
Again for anybody working on their own games or who does software. Avoid this like the plague.
Learning from the code and reusing the same code are two different things. It’s not every day you get to see how the pros do it.
On a completely different subject, I’m curious about your username, could you elaborate on it?
Edit: I scrolled down. What is Stormlight?
Edit2: I scrolled down even more. [This says it the best].(https://lemmy.world/comment/6232601)
Bad take.
Code is about working with a limited set of tools and making them work for whatever task is in front of you.
Inspiration is from interacting with something and receiving insight.
The best coders meld the two and push the industry forward. If you impose self limitations like this on yourself, then you’ll never advance yourself.
This is like saying you read lord of the rings and now can’t play DND because the fantasy source material was ‘stolen’.
I’m not a lawyer, but this sounds wrong. What would you say to Rockstar employees who go work at another developer? They saw the code, and they signed an NDA. If anyone is on the hook for something like that, it’s those people.
It’s Rockstar’s responsibility to protect their trade secrets. Copyright law protects them from someone taking their work and redistributing it, but none of the designs or ideas in there are protected by that. Copyright only protects actual works.
…again, I’m not a lawyer, so I could be wrong. I am a layman who has studied this topic a lot though.
