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UFO:AI on Ebay??
Inhuman:
As destructavator said, buying the game from the seller might be a good idea. Once you buy it, you can open a dispute, have your money back, and still be able to leave feedback. However, the seller will most certainly leave negative feedback on you as well, so one better sign up just for this lest his feedback score be stained.
XaverXN:
I don't think everyone here understands that this guy doesn't do anything illegal. It's his good right to sell GPLed software. So I don't think you could get your money back, and I don't think you could do anything to stop that. (E.g., some weeks ago, I saw a shop chain selling OpenOffice here in germany. And think about Linux distributors!)
The only thing someone selling open source software has to do is, he has to give the complete source code to anyone interested...
BTAxis:
The point is that he isn't offering ANYTHING. He's only charging people money for the sourceforge URL. It may not be strictly illegal, but it's definitely a scam.
Destructavator:
True, it certainly opens the door to prosecution, although whether it would be in civil court or criminal court I'm not sure, plus the fact that the game content is from various international creators, which makes it even more complicated as license and copyright laws vary from country to country - I've researched United States copyright law on my own in the past (though I don't know everything about it), but I know next to nothing about such laws in other countries.
Last time I checked, this seller was located in the United States, although United States laws on intellectual property also have special, additional rules for "imported" or otherwise foreign works that originate from other nations (which effs-up the math even more, into a gigantic legal equation).
Do we happen to have any lawyers who are in this forum? Don't be shy, raise your hand and shout!
As a side note, I noticed in a recent news report about the very first major lawsuit over an open-source project license violation - I don't remember all the details of the article, but somewhere in it it explained that such lawsuits apparently are quite rare. (If I'm remembering correctly, I could be wrong.)
TroubleMaker:
--- Quote from: BTAxis on November 14, 2007, 12:01:58 pm ---He's only charging people money for the sourceforge URL.
--- End quote ---
How about creating large textual banner, and make the link just a redirection to another downloading site? And let the "innocent" buyers write complaints against him
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