Ethical

[DustyPorViva]

I feel that UC servers should return the work to the developers. But it's a subjective thing. Servers like Delteria have been worked on for a long time, it wouldn't be fair for the staff to suddenly reclaim their work. However some unknown server that's been worked on for less than a year that has gotten no where? Sure, let the devs reclaim their work. It's not fair for some server that existed for 3 months and accomplished nothing, to deprive the developers of their hard work while the owner who sometimes does absolutely nothing runs off with it and then uses it for their own reasons a few months later. Especially since most of these UC servers are forgettable, and the developer may want to use their work to pursue things other than Graal(maybe making their own game).

[Fulg0reSama]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

I feel that UC servers should return the work to the developers.

Actually I thought that was already the case, for servers that haven't made it to the public in any form, could actually do that.

[papajchris]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

I feel that UC servers should return the work to the developers. But it's a subjective thing. Servers like Delteria have been worked on for a long time, it wouldn't be fair for the staff to suddenly reclaim their work. However some unknown server that's been worked on for less than a year that has gotten no where? Sure, let the devs reclaim their work. It's not fair for some server that existed for 3 months and accomplished nothing, to deprive the developers of their hard work while the owner who sometimes does absolutely nothing runs off with it and then uses it for their own reasons a few months later. Especially since most of these UC servers are forgettable, and the developer may want to use their work to pursue things other than Graal(maybe making their own game).

But on the opposite side of the spectrum, you might have someone working for you, who gets mad and deletes all of "their" work. Or down the road demands you no longer use their work. That wouldn't be right either. If I hire someone to my server, they shouldn't be allowed to just quit and take their work with them. Furthermore, many servers are beginning to pay some of their workers. What if you paid me to make you a tileset, and after being paid, I say I want to use it on another server.

For a while on Zodiac, it was only me and Jerret logging on, until we eventually got a break. But at that point in time, we were going nowhere, and we had been going nowhere for a long time.

If people don't want certain people having the rights to their work, they shouldn't make it for them. It'd be like giving money to a charity and asking for it back at a later date.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by papajchris

But on the opposite side of the spectrum, you might have someone working for you, who gets mad and deletes all of "their" work. Or down the road demands you no longer use their work. That wouldn't be right either. If I hire someone to my server, they shouldn't be allowed to just quit and take their work with them. Furthermore, many servers are beginning to pay some of their workers. What if you paid me to make you a tileset, and after being paid, I say I want to use it on another server.

For a while on Zodiac, it was only me and Jerret logging on, until we eventually got a break. But at that point in time, we were going nowhere, and we had been going nowhere for a long time.

If people don't want certain people having the rights to their work, they shouldn't make it for them. It'd be like giving money to a charity and asking for it back at a later date.

I'm talking about servers that close down.

Like I said, it's subjective. It's not a simple yes or no answer for something that can have so many variables.