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UFO:AI on Ebay??
BTAxis:
Maybe he's selling a 2.2 test installer, as opposed to the official 2.1.1 version.
simulatoralive:
Someone should find out if they're actually providing the source code for their modifications. If they're not, you can really rake em' over the coals. That would be a GPL violation. The owners of this project could then take them to court to force the source to their changes out of them.
They seem to be infringing on the artwork licenses, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were stepping all over the code license, too.
sd77:
Hello I've been following this thread and have been contacting the members that have bought this game from this guy.
One member told me that after he bought it, he was sent this link to download it:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157793&package_id=194208
maybe you can see now if it's legit for him to do so or not.
Destructavator:
So someone was swindled into paying money for a link to the free sourceforge download - yup, that's definitely a scam all right...
Something tells me someone was probably going to pull something like this with something free sooner or later, seems everyone wants to make a buck these days, even if it's through illegal means.
Well, being that the seller is based in the U.S. I'd say there is more than enough grounds to prosecute, although I'm not a lawyer.
I would suggest one of the devs, if they wish to pursue this, be chosen to represent the collective developers and contributers to this project and go through the VERO program on ebay - the form did state explicitly that it would not have to be filled out and submitted by the actual creator(s) of the work, but could be done by someone authorized to represent.
Simply going through the VERO program alone might be enough to stop this scandal, and would not necessarily mean a drawn-out legal battle, therefore I would suggest the VERO form first.
sd77:
Am I correct about not seeing any response from the devs in this this thread? Do they care? I would like to see this guy get penalized for something...
Anyway this is the guy selling it on eBay and it looks like he has had a lot of unaware people buy this from him.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Computer-PC-Game-UFO-ALIEN-INVASION-comparable-X-COM_W0QQitemZ200127210132QQihZ010QQcategoryZ62053QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
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