You’ve lived a very charmed life so far. Some day, something outside your control is going to happen, and you’ll have to change your mind about what you’d planned on doing as well, and I hope that you are surrounded by understanding and open minded people.
I think you are taking "required" too literally here, which is why you may have trouble understanding this. There is not a court somewhere saying "thou shalt restore the Arilou in SCO". :) Instead, I believe it's some rather basic game theory around being prepared for future legal arguments that could come up. Pure hypothetical here: Let's say that P&F release a game containing the Arilou that continues the story from SC2, and they call it GotP without using th
[quote who="Elestan" reply="34" id="3712452"] I'm not so sure. Copyright, not trademark, is what prohibits distributing actual copies of digital works, and Stardock doesn't have the copyright. It kind of feels to me like the argument you describe would require stretching trademark law to make it do what copyright law is intended for. [/quote] I don't know the law very much. Maybe not at all. But I know people a little bit. The argument "This p
[quote who="Elestan" reply="31" id="3712439"] That's why legal independence is so important to open-source projects. [/quote] Can you elaborate more? I can see how it *would* be interesting and important to open source projects that are derived from another project, as in this case. But I don't think I understand yet how any of the projects I'm familiar with, UQM and others, actually *have* any realistic level of legal independence and surety. Based
Forgive me if this is a question that's obvious to everyone else, but when there's talk about "What if Stardock (or anyone else) sued UQM?", who is it, exactly, that would be sued? It seems to me like that's hard to answer. And that difficulty makes it just as hard to suggest that Stardock sign legal paperwork allowing UQM to continue; other than Stardock, who would be able to sign for the other side of that agreement? I assume that as an open source project there's nobody