Stealing Open Source Projects' Names

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by klrr • 13 years ago
3 1 13 years ago

As you may know, the game studio Illfonic made a dirty deal with Alientrap and bought the rights to a games title. There was no law violations of course. The problem was that the title was the name of an open source game which by the time was almost completely community developed. (You can read the full story here: http://www.xonotic.org/the-game/faq/#What_prompted_the_split_from_Nexuiz )

This is happening again.

The open source game Termulous is experience a similar situation now. There's a new game by the title Termulous 2 that is a remake of the game. But, the new version is neither open source, neither free nor even available to all the platforms the original game supported. The developers of original Termulous ain't happy.

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