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Permission to port your game to another console

Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:34 pm

Hello all

I would like to ask the games developers on the Gamebuino community an open question about how you feel about ports of your open-source games to another open-source console.

The reason for my question is this:
I have been approached by several people with regards to my upcoming game console Pokitto.

My original plan was to just port all the open-source games (they're open source right?) as monochrome to run on the Pokitto.

But: the people I have been talking to are game makers of these communities, have told me in no uncertain words that I should politely ask how the community feels about this. This question is because they feel that I should bring it up. I will also do the same on Arduboy forums.

So: if you suddenly see your open-source game appearing on an another console with FULL CREDITS and SOURCE on a new platform, will you be annoyed or pleased? EDIT: let me rephrase that. How would you like us to handle this question in a way that will make you happy?

Re: Permission to port your game to another console

Sat Apr 22, 2017 6:29 pm

No problem for me (Fighting Fantasy engine).

Nicolas

Re: Permission to port your game to another console

Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:21 pm

I don't know if my games meet the quality requirements :p but as long as you respect the license which should be GPLv3 I would be happy ;)

Re: Permission to port your game to another console

Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:37 pm

I will absolutely respect all licenses used by original authors.

Re: Permission to port your game to another console

Sat Apr 22, 2017 11:07 pm

This is why you should always add licences to your games :P

Anyhow, mine are just ports anyways, so yeah >.>

Re: Permission to port your game to another console

Sun Apr 23, 2017 12:20 am

Not that I have ever finished any game, but I'd be happy to see my stuff ported to the Pokito, actually, I'd be happy to do it myself if I could get my grubby paws on one.

Re: Permission to port your game to another console

Tue Apr 25, 2017 7:16 am

No problem for me.
All my game and code are under WTFPL .

I should add it in the git hub repo ;)

But I Use asset from other user like Kirby64.


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Re: Permission to port your game to another console

Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:13 pm

The ones I coded are already clones of existing games. Concerning the code I think I haven't added a licence yet, but I planned to use a GPL or so. So you can use the code and make modifications as soon as you distribute it.
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